Management and Business context Annotated Bibliography

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a. Organizational structures or governance,
Zarkrewska-Bielawsk, A. (2016). Perceived mutual impact of strategy and organizational
structure: Findings from the high-technology enterprises. Journal of management and
Organization, 22(5), 599-622.
This paper investigates the relationship between organizational strategy and structure in
achieving organizational goals. The authors were seeking to determine the relationship between
organizational structure and business strategy and the reverse, by looking at the relationship
between strategy and structure. Through a research conducted in 61 high technology companies
in Poland, the study reported that the impact of the organizational structure is greater on business
strategy since it is important in how it will be achieved. This is because an inadequate
organizational structure can frustrate the business strategy since it will fail to achieve the mission
of the organization thus there are lower chances of achieving the strategy. The authors suggest
that management needs to develop a pattern for fitting and shaping the relationship between
business strategy and organizational structure. Thus organizations need to enable employees to
meet routine tasks through proper structures that allow organization of tasks. This means that
organizations need to adopt an organizational structure that allows innovative practice in the
organization to increase performance.
This article thus suggests that organizational structure is an important element in
achieving the organizational strategy. This is because the strategy relies on the human resource
system to execute and management support. This means that the type of structure that exists
defines the way tasks are organized distributed and allocated to employees to determine how
effectively the structure will be achieved. This resource is important since it defines the way

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business resources need to be organized in the organization. A good structure ensures that
routine activities in the organization are effectively and efficiently achieved. Thus by adopting a
structure that is innovative and allows aligning of employees to the organizational structure, then
it is easy to achieve the business strategy as highlighted in the journal. This means that
organizations need to work on strategies of achieving their business goals through aligning the
business strategy according to the requirements of the organizational structure.
b. Environmental forces
Schilke, O. (2018). A micro-institutional inquiry into resistance to environmental pressures.
Academy of Management Journal, 61(4), 1431–1466.
The article contributes to the emerging research on international organizational processes
responsible for reactions towards the external environment. This research offers new knowledge
on how organization identity shapes the way management responds to external organizational
pressures. According to the author organizational identity is an important filter that decision
makers within the organization use to relate to the external environment. Organizational identity
entails the classifications that people in organizations have based on the social categories used to
define them. This means that decision-makers in the organization use the social category of
organizational identity to interact with pressures within the business environment. The article
worked on the hypothesis that strong organizational identity increases resistance to external
environmental pressures that affect the organization. This is through bolstering decision making
certainty and shows the attention to the environment. The researcher presents measures on the
relationship between organizational identity and response to pressures and at the same to time
contrasts different types of organizational identity. This means that organizational identity is
used to define the way the organization is organized and how management uses it as a tool for