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- Title
Construction Principles and Design Rules in the Case of Circular Design.
- Authors
Romme, A. Georges L.; Endenburg, Gerard
- Abstract
This paper proposes science-based organization design that uses construction principles and design rules to guide practitioner-academic projects. Organization science implies construction principles for creating and implementing designs. These principles serve to construct design rules that are instrumental in developing organization designs. Testing and implementing designs require pragmatic experimentation in complex, dynamic settings. The authors explore a circular design process as an example of science-based organization design. Tests of this circular process in over 30 organizations suggest that construction principles are important for creating new design rules as well as for a deeper understanding of the systems and practices created from these rules. In addition, explicit principles and rules for organization design appear to facilitate the transfer of learning between different projects. As such, they can help reconnect organization research to ongoing design work.
- Subjects
ORGANIZATIONAL structure; ORGANIZATIONAL research; KNOWLEDGE transfer; INFORMATION resources management; THEORY of knowledge; EXPERIMENTAL design; SYSTEMS design; SPAN of control; CYBERNETICS; DESIGN -- Social aspects
- Publication
Organization Science, 2006, Vol 17, Issue 2, p287
- ISSN
1047-7039
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1287/orsc.1050.0169