The Emerging Flexible Organization: Perspectives from Silicon Valley
描述了硅谷高科技企业正在实验的灵活组织构建模块，这些模块旨在应对新任务、多变环境和持续创新，对关注组织变革的管理者和学者有参考价值。
Many enterprises, public and private alike, are in the midst of fundamental organizational changes. These cover a spectrum of initiatives—ranging from downsizing and delayering to the creation of team-based networks, partnerships, and alliances—and involve a fundamental reassessment of employment security, critical competencies, and career trajectories. Collectively, these trends highlight some of the limitations of our traditional approaches for managing continuous, rather than periodic, ransformations. High-technology firms in Silicon Valley are experimenting with flexible organizational building blocks, designed to address novel tasks, kaleidoscopic change, and continuous innovation. This article describes the building blocks of flexible organizational designs.