## March and Simon Definition 1993 Organisations are systems of coordinated action among individuals and groups whose preferences, information, interests or knowledge differ. Organization theories describe the delicate conversion of conflict into cooperation, the mobilisation of resources and the coordination of effort that facilitate the joint survival of an organization and its members (March and Simon 1993: 2). ## [['New' forms of organising organisations]] 2014 ## Daft definition 2007 - Deliberately Structured and co-ordinated Systems of activity - Goal Directed - Social entities- they have formal and informal relationships - Linked to the external environment ## Hamel and Zanini definition - Every institution is an assemblage of choices about how best to organise human beings in light of some particular goal. ([Location 475](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B07B9HFSHX&location=475)) - What we need are organizations with an “evolutionary advantage”—a capacity to change as fast as change itself. ([Location 574](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B07B9HFSHX&location=574)) - Benefits of [[Bureaucracy]] can still occur in managerless organisations: - Control - Consistency - Co-ordination. ### Links - [[Oticon]], a Danish hearing aids producer that has reorganised itself as a [[spaghetti organisation]] and is discussed in [Punham, Alexy and Reitzig 2014](x-devonthink-item://0BB58188-085E-44E0-929B-7357BD0F20A8?page=0) - [[Holacracy]]