Mintzberg Organizational Configurations
Each configuration prescribes a dominant coordinating mechanism, a locus of decision power, and a degree of process standardization, without addressing incentive design or capability assessment directly.
Henry Mintzberg, 1979
The origin of the framework, as the directory records it. The mark grades the origin, not this page.
Umbrex, Mintzberg Organizational Configurations
The directory entry this score was read from. Umbrex is a consultancy network; its summary is the reference, not a primary source.
Scored against the twelve cells, it loads four: Structure, Coordination, Authority, and Flow. The other eight it leaves to you. None of Composition, Evidence, or Mastery is among them, which is the usual result in this directory: the questions an agent in the loop raises first are the ones the literature answers least.
This is not a summary of the framework. Umbrex has one; the link under Sources goes there.
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