ADOPTION AND ABANDONMENT OF MATRIX MANAGEMENT PROGRAMS: EFFECTS OF ORGANIZATIONAL CHARACTERISTICS AND INTERORGANIZATIONAL NETWORKS.
研究医院采纳矩阵管理的原因，发现任务多样性、社会网络位置、信息传播和网络中的累积采纳效应都会影响采纳决策，但这些因素对放弃决策影响不大。
Organizational design theorists argue that organizations adopt matrix (departmentalized) structures for technical reasons, to solve problems of internal coordination and information processing. Research on interorganizational networks suggests that organizations adopt new structures because of mimetic forces and normative pressures. We examined the effects of both sets of factors on the adoption of matrix management in a group of hospitals. Multivariate analyses revealed that matrix adoption is influenced not only by task diversity, but also by sociometric location, the dissemination of information, and the cumulative force of adoption in interorganizational networks. Such variables exert little influence on decisions to abandon matrix programs, however.