Configurational and Coactivational Views of Organizational Structure
讨论了组织结构的两种观点：配置观强调权威协调工作，协同行动观强调参与者间的互动模式。两种观点在层级、权力和组织目的性上存在分歧。
Two distinct views of organizational structure, configurational and coactivational, are discussed. The configurational view stresses the authoritative coordination of work, whereas the coactivational view emphasizes recurrent patterns of interaction among participants. These two conceptual schemes differ in their stances toward hierarchy, power, and organizational purposiveness. The coactivational view substitutes “invisible hand” explanations of structure for the intentionalist explanations advanced by configurational theory.