Works
- The platform organization: recombining strategies, structures, and surprises, Organization Science 7(2), 103 to 118, 1996
In Organizational Structures
Known for
Improvisation and bricolage in organizations and information systems
Ideas
The platform organization. A firm facing high task uncertainty works as a platform from which hierarchy, matrix, and network forms are extracted, tried, and discarded as circumstances require, through improvisation and tinkering. Caveat: One firm (Olivetti); not the same idea as platform orchestration of outside complementors.