Organizing and the New Agile and Virtual Firm

Andrés Hatum ()

Chapter 1 in The New Workforce Challenge, 2013, pp 11-34 from Palgrave Macmillan

Abstract: Abstract Malone (2004), trying to understand changes in organizational patterns over time, concludes that businesses have been structured according to the way in which societies have been organized. He notes that until 1800 most businesses worldwide were family fi rms that enjoyed a lot of freedom but rarely interacted with members of other groups. Corporate hierarchies emerged in 1870 with the railroad industry, which was one of the fi rst to embrace centralization. The benefi ts of scale were important to the realization of the centralization process. Malone highlights the case of Ford, where the amount of time to make a Model T had dropped from 12 hours and 8 minutes to only 1 hour and 33 minutes in 1913. Many companies that could not achieve such scale benefi ts did not survive. Adaptation was clearly necessary to survival.

Keywords: Strategic Alliance; Service Innovation; Virtual Organization; Railroad Industry; Virtual Company (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2013
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DOI: 10.1057/9781137302991_2

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