We are currently witnessing the diffusion of various new organizational designs, emerging primarily in complex, dynamic sectors of the global economy. Common to all of the new designs is that the locus of control and coordination mechanisms is the organizational actor. Such organization designs can be understood by applying the
actor-oriented architectural scheme. This scheme represents a change from expressing organizational architecture as specific organization structures to expressing it as principles by which actors engage in organizational relationships. Such a change provides a truly dynamic perspective of organizational adaptation to continuously changing environments.