ARCHITECTURE: FORM, FUNCTION,AND FIT
The term ‘architecture’ is frequently used in the characterization of structures, such as buildings or cities, but increasingly the concept of architecture is being applied to other domains, including products , industries , and organizations .
An organization is a goal-directed activity system (Aldrich and Ruef, 2006). As discussed by Barnard (1938), an effective organization is one that has been designed in a coherent manner.