ABSTRACT
Structure casts a powerful directive on an organization's life and people. Structure determines the degree of internal control, the manner in which people work, the locus of power, lines of communication, the decision-making process, and how knowledge is managed in the organization. As Rossbeth Kanter notes, “In the future, organizations will be ruled by communication instead of bureaucracy, and hierarchies will be replaced by more peer-oriented relationships across borders.… globalization (and its structure) is more than just international operations, but a way of thinking and responding to all possibilities” [1]. Dunning concurs by stating, “Economic globalization both changes the spatial dimension of multinational enterprises and creates a need for more flexible production and marketing systems, and new forms of organization” [2, p. 202].
