ABSTRACT
This chapter examines the effect of shifting from one compliance type to another on a central organizational process, namely that of executive mobility. It reviews of some approaches to the study of control specialization. The chapter describes intra-organizational and inter-organizational mobility of executives. Mobility requires transfer from one kind of compliance structure, considerable changes in behavior, orientation, or effectiveness of the executive are to be expected. Compliance specialization of executives is less apparent than performance specialization, in part because there are only three common types of compliance structure while there are many hundreds of performance specializations. An executive can move among positions and cross many administrative boundaries without changing to a different type of compliance structure. In this sense the specialization of control agents, of executives, is broader – permits more horizontal mobility without loss of effectiveness–than does the performance specialization of skilled workers and experts.
