The phrase "a formal organization" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it when referring to an established group or entity that has a structured framework and defined rules.
Example: "The conference was organized by a formal organization dedicated to promoting environmental awareness."
Alternatives: "an official organization" or "a structured organization".
But when it comes to creating a formal organization, little research has examined how such groups select organizing practices, given competing logics about how to organize.
Such interests lack a formal organization or permanent structure.
Granted, it's not a formal organization like the Republican Party.
They don't have a formal organization, membership, posters or agenda.
The Tablighi Jamaat is less a formal organization than a network of part-time preachers.
(In this way, the Remembrance Project is more of a network than a formal organization).
This may seem completely intuitive but yet many organizations in Canada, and likely elsewhere, still do not have a formal, organization-wide process for priority setting in place [ 27].
Most merging companies set up a "transition structure"—a temporary but formal organization made up of dozens of committees, task forces, and teams charged with realizing the expected merger synergies.
President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, after taking office in 2005, tried to create a more formal organization for the Basij, with an official budget, but the Revolutionary Guards rejected the move, Iran analysts said.
Skeptics like Rome Aloise, a Teamsters international vice president who has been working to organize Uber drivers in California, question the Machinists' approach of brokering a deal with Uber without first building a more formal organization of drivers.
As a result, formal organization often has important implications for anyone, at any level, seeking to control the members of an organization.
