Works
- Organizations in action: social science bases of administrative theory, McGraw-Hill; reissued by Routledge, 2017, 1967
In Organizational Structures
Known for
Interdependence and coordination
Ideas
Interdependence and coordination. Thompson distinguished pooled, sequential, and reciprocal interdependence and paired them with coordination by standardization, plan, and mutual adjustment. Caveat: Propositions, tested later by others.
Organizational Structures that draw on James D. Thompson (23)
- Adhocracy (innovative organization)
- Agile at scale
- Algorithmically managed organization
- Boundaryless organization
- Cellular organization
- Distributed (all-remote) organization
- Divisional by customer or market segment
- Federal organization
- Front-back organization
- Functional structure
- Hybrid structure
- Hypertext organization
- Internal market organization
- Linking-pin organization (System 4)
- Process (horizontal) organization
- Professional bureaucracy
- Professional partnership (P2 form)
- Project-based organization
- Shamrock organization
- Socio-technical autonomous work groups
- Stratified hierarchy (requisite organization)
- Team-based organization
- The corporate center and shared services