2The organizationalcontext
Increasingly, the trend in organizational design today is towards smaller, more autonomous business units. Evidence for this trend takes several forms:
replacement of traditional hierarchies, with all decisions taken at the centre, by decentralization of decision-making
the incorporation of support services (like finance and personnel) into the activities of business units
the fragmentation of multiple product-lines into ...
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