Adapting organizations: the instance of business process re‐engineering

Dekkers, Rob

doi:10.1002/sres.857

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“…interrelations with customers and suppliers; this notion is also found in business process reengineering (e.g. Kock, 2003;Kock and McQueen, 1996;Martin and Cheung, 2005) and methods for analysis and design of organisational structures (for instance Dekkers, 2008).…”

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Group technology: Amalgamation with design of organisational structures

Dekkers

2018

International Journal of Production Economics

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Group technology has been studied extensively from an 'industrial engineering' perspective (layout, scheduling, workflow, etc.), but less often from an organisational design viewpoint. To study this implication of group technology, the approach of applied systems theory for the design of organisational structures as framework for analysis was used in three empirical cases. To increase the reliability of findings from the analysis of these three empirical cases, five more cases were drawn from archival search. Cluster analysis and product flow analysis were the methods used for forming groups of machines and employees in manufacturing cells, whereas the coding of parts was not employed to this end. Furthermore, the results indicate that the implementation of group technology generally meets shifts in performance requirements caused by competitive pressures, particularly flexibility and responsiveness, albeit the companies considered group technology only when under pressure of 'poor' business performance. However, group technology is not always a solution to challenges that companies experience; one empirical case shows that defunctionalisation and scheduling with virtual groups was more beneficial. Nevertheless, when the introduction of group technology is feasible, it also allows firms to consider delegating responsibility for production planning and scheduling to lower levels in the hierarchy and semi-autonomous groups as an alternative to 'complex' software applications (a socio-technical approach). Whereas the current study sheds some light on the relationship between group technology and design of organisational structures, further research is necessary into the design of these structures and their relationship to group technology.

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Group technology: Amalgamation with design of organisational structures

Dekkers

2018

International Journal of Production Economics

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“…This is curious because there are a number of studies suggesting that our organizational change methodologies tend to be effective around 20-25 % of the time (e.g. Dekkers 2008;MacIntosh and MacLean 1999;Smith 2003). Is this a coincidence?…”

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The Science of Conceptual Systems: A Progress Report

Wallis

2015

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In this paper I provide a brief history of the emerging science of conceptual systems, explain some methodologies, their sources of data, and the understandings that they have generated. I also provide suggestions for extending the science-based research in a variety of directions. Essentially, I am opening a conversation that asks how this line of research might be extended to gain new insights-and eventually develop more useful and generally accepted methods for creating and evaluating theory. This effort will support our ability to generate theory that is more effective in practical application as well as accelerating the development of theory to support advances in other sciences.

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“…Se analizó la reingeniería de procesos, a través del caso de Business Process Re-ingeniería y sus familiares-la innovación de procesos y enfoque de la Escuela de Delft-, desde una perspectiva evolutiva sobre la base de una analogía entre los organismos y organizaciones. La investigación presenta un modelo de referencia que se origina en la evolución biológica de las teorías y modelos, para identificar y describir estos procesos evolutivos (Dekkers, 2008).…”

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Aportes desde las ciencias biológicas a la teoría de la gestión

Acuña

Restrepo

Domínguez

2010

Rev. fac. cien. econ.

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ResumenLas metáforas biológicas han sido aplicadas en los modelos de gestión organizacional para fortalecer su conceptualización y entendimiento, sin embargo se requiere hacer un seguimiento bibliomé-trico de estos aportes con el fin de articular dicha información. El objetivo del presente documento es destacar los resultados obtenidos para establecer el estado del arte, enfoques y aportes del desarrollo de la aplicación de los modelos biológicos en las ciencias administrativas. De los resultados obtenidos se encontró que existe un fuerte posicionamiento de la aplicación de los conceptos biológicos en la implementación de procesos productivos, como una forma de administrar eficientemente la producción. Adicionalmente, la generación de la comparación está relacionada con las formas de organización del medio ambiente para ser aplicadas a las estructuras organizacionales. No obstante, el análisis realizado muestra que la dinámica de publicaciones sobre el aporte de las biociencias a la gestión tiene mucho potencial y ha sido diverso conceptualmente. Palabras clave: Metáfora organizacional, metáfora biológica, modelos de gestión organizacional. CONTRIBUTIONS FROM LIFE SCIENCES TO MANAGEMENT THEORY AbstractBiological metaphors have been applied to organizational management models, however, a bibliometrical monitoring of these contributions needs to be done with the purpose of articulating such information. The objective of this paper is to outline the results to establish the state of art, approaches and contributions of biological models application development in administrative sciences. From the obtained results, it was found that there is a strong positioning of biological concepts application in the implementation of productive processes as a form to manage production efficiently. Additionally, the generation of comparing is related to organization forms of the environment to be applied in organizational structures. However, the analysis made shows that * El presente trabajo hace parte de la línea de investigación BioGestión y pertenece al proyecto Fortalecimiento conceptual del Grupo de Investigación y Desarrollo, en gestión, productividad y competitividad: Identificación de tendencias sobre el aporte de las biociencias a la Gestión. Bogotá, Universidad Nacional de Colombia. Los autores manifiestan su agradecimiento a la ingeniera Sandra Lorena Fonseca, por su trabajo dentro del proyecto.

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Adapting organizations: the instance of business process re‐engineering

Cited by 19 publications

References 59 publications

Group technology: Amalgamation with design of organisational structures

Group technology: Amalgamation with design of organisational structures

The Science of Conceptual Systems: A Progress Report

Aportes desde las ciencias biológicas a la teoría de la gestión

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