Exploring the structural effects of internetworking
研究了网络互联如何影响成熟企业的组织结构，发现深度互联的企业更专注、更扁平、更多外部合作，而非扩大范围或层级。
Abstract Extant theory presents conflicting perspectives on how internetworking might affect the organizational structures of established firms. One prediction is that internetworking could narrow organizational scope and deepen specialization, reduce hierarchy, and increase external partnering. A second contends that internetworking might increase scope, expand hierarchy, and decrease external partnering. Analysis of a multinational sample of 469 firms reveals that deeply internetworked firms are more focused and specialized, less hierarchical, and more engaged in external partnering than less intensively internetworked organizations are. No scope broadening or hierarchy expansion effects are observed. Copyright © 2004 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.