Works
- Adoption and abandonment of matrix management programs: effects of organizational characteristics and interorganizational networks, Academy of Management Journal 36(1), 106 to 138, 1993
In Organizational Structures
Known for
Studies of matrix management in hospitals.
Ideas
Institutional diffusion of the matrix. Hospitals adopted matrix management partly for task reasons and partly because of their position in networks and the cumulative adoption around them; those network factors did not explain abandonment. Caveat: One sector; adoption, not effectiveness.