This document discusses how the environment impacts organizational form, with stable environments supporting mechanistic forms and unstable environments supporting organic forms. Early contingency theory took an objective view of the environment's impact, while modern views consider the interaction between environmental complexity and the rate of change, as well as perceptual uncertainty. Information theory is discussed as it relates to uncertainty.
This document discusses how the environment impacts organizational form, with stable environments supporting mechanistic forms and unstable environments supporting organic forms. Early contingency theory took an objective view of the environment's impact, while modern views consider the interaction between environmental complexity and the rate of change, as well as perceptual uncertainty. Information theory is discussed as it relates to uncertainty.
This document discusses how the environment impacts organizational form, with stable environments supporting mechanistic forms and unstable environments supporting organic forms. Early contingency theory took an objective view of the environment's impact, while modern views consider the interaction between environmental complexity and the rate of change, as well as perceptual uncertainty. Information theory is discussed as it relates to uncertainty.