| The goal of this research is to explore ways to leverage information technology to achieve a more optimal organizational structure in firms with specific characteristics. There are many ways to organize a business and the technology evolution is continuously making an optimal solution impossible to achieve, if not at least unreasonable to sustain. However, some forms are better than others depending upon an identifiable set of characteristics.;Some measurable influences to consider include: (1) Percentage of overhead charges in final cost (Halal, Heilbronner, McDermott); (2) Employee satisfaction among skilled labor positions (Estes, Lipnack, Deming); (3) Volatility of organizational (Ulrich & Probst, Stamps, Ehin); (4) Degree of coupling among major business entities (Perrow, Sproul & Kiesler); (5) Perceived/actual quality (Deming, Davidow & Malone).;The result of this research will be to develop a set of criteria to measure these influences in order to accurately assess a company's suitability for achieving improvement by transitioning toward an o-form organizational structure. A model of a new organization type (objective corporation) based on a finite set of technologies to capitalize on these influences represents an aggregation of new organizational types represented in the literature. |
