Chapter 4 – Organizational Design
4.1: Organizations under norms of rationality seek to place their boundaries around those activities which if left to the task environment would be crucial contingencies.
4.1a: Organizations employing long-linked technologies and subject to rationality norms seek to expand their domains through vertical integration.
4.1b: Organizations employing mediating technologies, and subject to rationality norms seek to expand their domains by increasing the populations served.
4.1c: Organizations employing intensive technologies and subject to rationality norms seek to expand their domains by incorporating the object worked on.
4.2: Multicomponent organizations subject to rationality norms will seek to grow until the least-reducible component is approximately fully occupied.
4.3: Organizations with capacity in excess of what the task environment supports will seek to enlarge their domains.
Chapter 5 – Technology and Structure
5.1: Under norms of rationality, organizations group positions to minimize coordination costs.
5.1a: Organizations seek to place reciprocally interdependent positions tangent to one anoth-er, in a common group which is (a) local and (b) conditionally autonomous.