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The environment is turning more and more turbulent. Enterprises are not able to predict the future over a longer time and notice the drastic changes on the markets that they serve. To ensure the long time capability of survival within turbulent markets, enterprises have to generate flexible, adaptable and living organizational structures, best known as dynamic structures. To meet this demand, enterprises need instruments and methods to point out the current organizational structure and to highlight change requirements. These are prerequisites to set goals and to develop strategies to reach them.
The focal point of this paper is the description of the Structural Behavior of an organization. The structural behavior describes the ability of an enterprise to react on market changes. Consequently, the structural behavior can be divided in rigid, chaotic and dynamic. To ensure an holistic view on the entire social-technical system enterprise, the Six-Level Model was used. This model also helps to structure the characteristics of the Structural Behavior and their degrees.
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Markfort, D., Borgmann, C., Brehmer, N., Förster, T. (1998). Evaluation of Enterprises within a Turbulent Market — Control the Dynamic Character of Turbulent Markets of the Next Millennium. In: Schönsleben, P., Büchel, A. (eds) Organizing the Extended Enterprise. IFIP — The International Federation for Information Processing. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-35295-4_16
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