In this article, I seek to define the boundaries and attributes of network organizations, why
these structures emerge, and when they are likely to be successful. I review the literature on …

Coordination is the management of dependencies between activities. Given that supply
chains represent the functional integration of many interdependent activities associated with …

The need for studying the effects of cannibalization and its importance has been established
in the literature, especially, since an assessment of the expected cannibalization effect of a …

Great emphasis is given by literature to the fragility of just-in-time production systems, due to
the different sources of uncertainty which usually affect industrial operations. In this paper …

Diese Arbeit wurde im Rahmen meiner Habilitation an der Friedrich-Alexander-Universität
Erlangen Nürnberg verfasst. Grundsätzlich soll sich jeder Habilitand breit und tief mit seiner …

This paper critically examines programme structure as a dimension of programme strategy
within the context of large-scale-multi-site (LSMS) information system (IS) based change …

Since late 2007 the turbulences of the sub-prime mortgage market and its consequences
haven shaken the international banking industry (cf. Wheeler and Werchola, 2007, p. 48-57; …

Contemporary organizations often utilize complex structures to manage resources and the
processes they perform. We apply a coordination theory perspective to analyze the structure …