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Search by topic:   17744. BURNS & STALKER ON ORGANIZATIONAL STRUCTURE. This paper considers whether or not Burns and Stalker’s proposition that an organization with a mechanistic structure cannot revert to an organic structure is true and, if true, if it matters. The analysis begins with an overview of organizational structure and theory behind it. Burns and Stalker’s work and the authors’ central theories and propositions are presented. The relationship between organization structure and classical systems is discussed. Contemporary alternatives to the mechanistic/organic structural paradigm including lateral and matrix structures are also considered. The relationship between strategy and structure and its implication for adapting structure to fit the environment is considered. The concluding section returns to the central question and argues that while mechanistic organizations face numerous challenges and impediments in their effort to adopt an organic structure, such a transformation is not an impossibility. Writen 2006. KEYWORDS: mechanistic-organic organization structure theory burns stalker mintzberg strategy structure. 12 pages, 41 footnotes, 17 bibliographic sources. 2,994 words.   $84 Copyright 2002 Academic Research Papers Associate Term Paper Sites: Academic Research Papers Academic-Research-Papers Research Central Term Paper Assistance