Straw poll: of the 8 major metaphors of organization (see pic), which one dominates at your workplace?
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kind of a parable of the blind men and the elephant problem in that question though-how high do you expect w/in firm reliability to be?
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I expect fairly good consensus in a company that's been around >1 year and has more than 12 employees actually
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yeah, my intuition goes the other way on that. Would be interesting to see.
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Am planning a serious survey on this actually
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I think that would be pretty interesting to see what drives the variation, either within or across firms.
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I'm guessing you are thinking more of a firm, industry, market, or field effect will predominate?
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I'm thinking initial conditions set by founders/senior management creates a strong bias and filter effect
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definitely check out Aldrich's Organizations Evolving and the organizational ecology literature if you haven't yet.
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there are definitely strong founder effects and supra-firm level effects in play, especially in initial phases of firm life.
