COMMERCE 1BA3 Chapter Notes - Chapter 16: Mass Production, Nihon Bijutsuin, Cabinetry
14 Jun 2016
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The technologies of organizations technology: the activities, equipment, and knowledge necessary to turn organizational inputs into desired outputs. 2. long-linked technologies operate under sequential interdependence (a condition in which organizational subunits are dependent on the resources generated by units that precede them in a sequence of work) 3. intensive technologies operate under reciprocal interdependence (a condition in which organizational subunits must engage in considerable interplay and mutual feedback to accomplish a task) Woodward"s production processes: classified technologies into units, masses, and processes. Perrow: routine technologies function under mechanistic structures; nonroutine tech under organic structures. Thompson: interdependent technologies need increased coordination or integration mechanisms. Woodward: smooth, continuous, impersonal production increasing importance on management: unit and process technologies rely on organic structures. Most to least routine: routine, engineering, craft, nonroutine: mass production relies on mechanistic structures. Implications of advanced information technology technological interdependence: the extent to which advanced information technology: the generation, organizational subunits depend on each other for resources.
