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This contribution presents the idea that we need to look at the professional bureaucracy and design mechanical structures with lateral knowledge liaisons when exceptions are generated on a continuous basis. By decreasing the information processing need and replacing autonomy with formalization and centralization, individual knowledge workers assigned to organizational tasks can concentrate on specific tasks and will be released from the information-processing demand for more organic structural designs.
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Gulløv, T. (2006). Structural Limitations in Organizational Design. In: Burton, R.M., Håkonsson, D.D., Eriksen, B., Snow, C.C. (eds) Organization Design. Information and Organization Design Series, vol 6. Springer, Boston, MA . https://doi.org/10.1007/0-387-34173-0_4
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