Practice question · Multiple choice
A game studio in a fast-shifting market adopts tall hierarchy, thick rulebooks, and top-only decisions, and starts missing every trend. Burns and Stalker’s diagnosis?
Hints
- How fast does the environment change? How fast can this structure?
- The fit, not the design, is what fails.
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D. A mechanistic design, wrong environment
Why
Mechanistic machinery is superb at repeating yesterday efficiently, fatal when tomorrow keeps changing. The same design running a power plant would be praised; contingency theory grades structures only against their environments.
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