Works
- The disaggregation of corporations: selective intervention, high-powered incentives, and molecular units, Organization Science 8(3), 209 to 222, 1997
- Being efficiently fickle: a dynamic theory of organizational choice, Organization Science 13(5), 547 to 566, 2002
- Valve corporation: composing internal markets, Journal of Organization Design 4(2), from page 20, 2015
In Organizational Structures
Known for
Organizational economics and strategy.
Ideas
Disaggregation into molecular units. With Hesterly, the argument that large firms are disaggregating into small, autonomous units treated much like subcontractors, because small size brings high-powered incentives and new measurement permits selective intervention of market elements in hierarchy. Caveat: Conceptual.
Composing internal markets. Reads Valve's boss-less design as composed internal markets, while saying its efficiency cannot be shown from the evidence. Caveat: A commentary.
Structural modulation. With Nickerson, the case for modulating between forms rather than holding one. Caveat: A model.