A network organization to meet the challenges of complexity

Serge Feneuille

European Management Journal, 1990, vol. 8, issue 3, 296-301

Abstract: In order to meet the challenge of an ever more complex and turbulent environment, organization in the larger enterprise today runs the risk of becoming extremely complex if not unnecessarily complicated. In response to this, many make a virtue of simplicity but in doing so fall perhaps into the error of oversimplification. This article puts forward the argument for a network organization which, while retaining the advantages of simplicity, allows for an adequate response to a complex environment, especially in the management of information. Lafarge Coppée has experimented successfully with a type of organization which, by establishing links across traditional hierarchical barriers and encouraging involvement and initiative, is most likely to give the enterprise the flexibility and adaptability it needs to face the uncertain world of the nineties.

Date: 1990
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