KOŞUL BAĞIMLILIK KURAMI KAPSAMINDA ÖRGÜT BÜYÜKLÜĞÜ-ÖRGÜT YAPISI İLİŞKİSİNİN YAZINSAL AÇIDAN ELEŞTİREL BİR DEĞERLENDİRMESİ

Abstract

Örgüt büyüklüğü ile örgüt yapısı ilişkisi, uzun süredir yönetim yazınının tartışma konusu olmayı sürdürmektedir. Öte yandan örgüt büyüklüğünün örgüt yapısı üzerinde bir şekilde etkili olduğu konusunda kayda değer bir akademik görüş birliği bulunmakla birlikte; yapılan yazınsal taramanın sonucunda, bu ilişkinin niteliği konusunda tam bir akademik uzlaşıya varıldığını ifade etmek güçtür. Bu çalışmanın amacı, yazar tarafından ulaşılabilen çalışmalar dikkate alınarak, yazında örgüt büyüklüğü-örgüt yapısı ilişkisi üzerinde halen önemli tartışma –uzlaşmazlık- noktalarının ve bundan kaynaklanan bir belirsizliğin olduğunun altını çizmek ve buradan yeni açılımlara işaret edebilmektir. Çalışmanın yazınsal anlamda özellikle öne çıkardığı ana konu başlıkları; örgüt büyüklüğü kavramının tanımında göreli bir belirsizliğin söz konusu olması, örgüt büyüklüğü-örgüt yapısı ilişkisinde ön plana çıkan “örgütsel farklılaşma” ve “örgütsel karmaşıklık” olgularının net bir biçimde ayrımlandırılamaması, örgüt büyüklüğü ile sözü edilen iki kavram arasında döngüsel bir ilişkinin varlığı üzerinde bir tartışmanın söz konusu olması ve örgüt büyüklüğü-bürokratikleşme arasında ilgi kuran çalışmaların sonuçlarının tam bir açıklıkla ortaya konulamaması şeklinde sıralanabilir

Keywords

• Koşul Bağımlılık Kuramı, Örgüt Büyüklüğü, Örgüt Yapısı, Örgütsel Farklılaşma, Örgütsel Karmaşıklık, Bürokratikleşme

A CRITICAL REVIEW OF LITERATURE ON THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN ORGANIZATION SIZE AND ORGANIZATIONAL STRUCTURE IN THE FRAMEWORK OF CONTINGENCY THEORY

Abstract

The relationship between the structure and size of an organization has been a topic of discussion for long in the management literature. Although there is a consensus among the academia about the existence of a correlation between the two, how they affect each other is still debated. The objective of this essay is, upon a review of the available literature, to underline the significant controversies and ambiguities about the relationship between the structure and size of an organization, and to open out new ways of thinking. Main topics that the essay will focus on are the vague definition of the organizational size; the confusion of “organizational differentiation” and “organizational complexity”, which are two important concepts explaining the relationship; the lack of consensus about the relationship between the size of an organization and these two important concepts; and inexplicit nature of the literature on the relationship between the size of an organization and the level of bureaucratization

Keywords

• : Contingency Theory, Organization Size, Organizational Structure, Organizational Differentiation, Organizational Complexity, Bureaucratization

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