ABSTRACT
This chapter introduces certain mathematical characterizations of complex networked Lean strategic organizational design configurations. It presents the conditions for complex networked Lean strategic organizational design configurations to emerge, and provides a quantifiable explanation of how behavioral spreading phenomena can be analytically described in such organizational design architectures. Under the organizational network paradigm, there are two conditions for complex organizational evolving networks to adopt a scale-free network structure: continuous growth and preferential attachment. The condition for continuous growth needs to be fulfilled for the overall scale-free network to emerge. Preferential attachment is a probabilistic mechanism that describes how in real networks new nodes prefer to attach to other nodes with certain characteristics more than to others. The chapter discusses the rational optimization preferential attachment processes in detail in the context of complex networked organizational design configurations. The preferential attachment of the structural network can happen in three ways that can symbiotically coexist: hierarchical, processual, and organic.
