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Re: Comments on a Michael Hardt NLR article by Sabri Oncu 30 April 2002 04:48 UTC |
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Gert writes: > TNCs > (2) take any modern textbook on international > business (training material for future global > corporate executives). There you will find that > even global corporations are not preaching the > centralist model (hierarchy, pyramidal structure) > anymore, but networked and matrix models, instead. Gert, This mail has nothing to do with the rest of your mail. It is just a comment about the above. I say what is called a matrix model is garbage. It is just a new name for a sliced and diced hierarchy, which is still an hierarchy, or hierarchy of hierarchies. I happen to have read some of those modern text books, known a few who write them closely, a few who teach/preach them closely, including my own brother, and a few who attempted to implement them. Don't take such text books seriously, at least, no more seriously than your own books. I had lived in those matrix structures and this is why I say they are garbage. They are no better than pyramidal structures because they are pyramidal structures themselves. They are just smaller pyramids, on top of smaller pyramids, on top of smaller pyramids and so forth. That means they are pyramids too. This is how TNCs work. Don't buy the lies of those Organizational Behavior professors who write that garbage without any real world experience. Their ideas are nice on the pages of shiny books. Reality is different. Best, Sabri Oncu
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