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Structure in 5’s: A Synthesis of the Research on Organization Design Henry Mintzberg, Management Science, Vol. 26, No. 3 (Mar., 1980), 322-341. Stable URL: butp//links jstor.org/sici?sic!=0025-1909% 28 198003%2926%3A3%3C322%3,ASISASO%3E2,0,CO%3B2-%23 Management Science is currently published by INFORMS. ‘Your use of the ISTOR archive indicates your acceptance of JSTOR’s Terms and Conditions of Use, available at hhup:/www.jstororg/about/terms.hml. JSTOR’s Terms and Conditions of Use provides, in part, that unless you have obtained prior permission, you may not download an entire issue of a journal or multiple copies of articles, and you may use content in the JSTOR archive only for your personal, non-commercial use. Please contact the publisher regarding any further use ofthis work. Publisher contact information may be obtained at hup:/www jstor.org/journals/informs.huml, Each copy of any part of a JSTOR transmission must contain the same copyright notice that appears on the sereen or printed page of such transmission, STOR is an independent not-for-profit organization dedicated to creating and preserving a digital archive of scholarly journals, For more information regarding JSTOR, please contact support @jstor.org. bupslwww jstor.org/ ‘Thu Jan 27 00:51:46 2005 STRUCTURE IN 5’S: A SYNTHESIS OF THE RESEARCH ON ORGANIZATION DESIGN* HENRY MINTZBERG} ‘The elements of organizational structuring—which show a curious tendency to appear in ‘ive'e—euggest a typology of five basic configurations: Simple Strctue, Machine Buresi- ‘racy, Professional Bureaucracy, Divisionalized Form, and Adhocr2c. ‘The elements include (1) ive basic parts of the organization—the operating cor, strategic apes, middle line, technostrcture, and support staff; @) five basic mechanisms of coor

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