Abstract
Strategy scholars use organizational form to determine similarity between organizations. Organizational form has traditionally been determined according to whether or not an organization possesses a set of features. Recently, some scholars have argued that membership in an organizational form should instead be determined according to whether or not audience members perceive that the organization possesses a set of social codes. Organizations belonging to a new organizational form face specific challenges, because new forms lack clear boundaries, established schemas, and scripts to guide actions and legitimacy from external stakeholders. Some new organizational forms to recently emerge include hybrid organizations and network forms of organizing.
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Grodal, S. (2016). New Organizational Forms. In: Augier, M., Teece, D. (eds) The Palgrave Encyclopedia of Strategic Management. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-349-94848-2_610-1
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