In the system concept of the enterprise, organization and management and their structures are its functional, spatial integrating elements that create relations and links of corporate architecture. ...The paper focuses on organizational and management structures in the current market economy conditions of the Czech Republic. The theoretical basis of the issue is defined as the theory of organizing with organizational behaviour. It contains important definitions of the terms, including the basic configuration of organizational structures. Based on a large sample of mostly South Bohemian enterprises, the current level of organizational and management structures is analysed, basic comparisons according to the size categories of enterprises with sectoral differentiation is carried out. The outputs of the analysis revealed that there is a decline of classical management structures such as the divisional and combined structure at the expense of unit structures with the trend being the most intense in the largest enterprises. Such transformation provably relates to business orientation, and the industrial sector is more pronounced. In terms of the number of management levels, there was no causal relation to the focus of the enterprise, unlike its size. At the same time, the results revealed a significant lack of knowledge of organizational and managerial skills of business managers, particularly in micro and small enterprises. The overriding opinion of all the executives in the sample should be a requirement for the gradual reorganization of the existing organizational and management structures with an individual approach for each enterprise. The conclusion of the paper summarizes the results achieved and indicates the expected trend of the corporate architecture.
The carried synthetic analysis of the first degree has exerted big ability for taking up of adjust operation for conditions of farming changing, it was as that creation of competitive superiority. ...Simplification of structure organisation (sown area, limiting of breeding of animal for swine flock) with taking into consideration market condition, structures of organisations for farming about that in all analysed last years economic system contribute constant. Come into effect had influence on proceeding process specialisation, which has contributed to getting high productive result and by cooperative financial.
This article examines the location of functions within the electricity sector in Canada from 1971 to 2001, using a centre‐periphery model. Power generation, distribution and retailing are generally ...carried out by multiestablishment crown corporations. Location patterns of different functions—management, scientific, production, etc.—are analyzed via the use of occupational groups. The spatial distribution of functions is found to be generally consistent with centre‐periphery relationships, with evidence of a growing functional specialization between large metropolitan and nonmetropolitan locations. However, differences emerge depending on power generation sources: fossil fuels, hydro, nuclear, solar or biomass. The choice of a power generation source has consequences for local economies.
La spécialisation fonctionnelle à travers l'espace: une étude de cas du secteur canadien de l'électricité, 1971–2001
Cet article étudie la localisation des fonctions au sein du secteur de l'électricité au Canada de 1971 à 2001 en faisant appel à un modèle centre‐périphérie. De façon générale, les sociétés d'État àétablissements multiples assurent la production, la distribution et la commercialisation de l'énergie. Les schémas de localisation des diverses fonctions—gestion scientifique, production, etc.—sont analysés selon les catégories professionnelles. Les résultats montrent l'existence d'une cohérence entre la distribution spatiale des fonctions et les rapports centre‐périphérie, et indiquent une croissance de la spécialisation fonctionnelle entre les grandes régions métropolitaines et les zones non‐métropolitaines. Par contre, on constate des différences selon les sources de production énergétique: les combustibles fossiles, l'hydroélectricité, le nucléaire, le solaire ou la biomasse. Le choix d'une source de production énergétique comporte des conséquences pour les économies locales.
The Sites of Organizations Schatzki, Theodore R
Organization studies,
03/2005, Letnik:
26, Številka:
3
Journal Article
Recenzirano
This essay introduces a new form of social ontology and sketches its bearings on the analysis of organizations. The essay begins by contrasting the two social ontological camps - individualism and ...societism - into which social theory has been divided since its inception. It then describes the new approach, called site ontology, according to which social life is tied to a context (site) of which it is inherently a part. Examples of such ontologies are presented, as is my own thesis that the site of social life is composed of a nexus of human practices and material arrangements. The bearing of the latter ontology on the character, origin, and perpetuation of organizations is then considered, using an academic department as an example. Contrasts are also drawn with various approaches in organizations theory, including rational organizations, neoinstitutionalism, systems theories, and selection theories. A final section considers the complex psychological structure of organizations, working off Karl Weick and Karlene Robert's notion of collective mind in organizations. PUBLICATION ABSTRACT
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