It is not an anarchic denial of the need for structure.Related items Idea: Viral marketingDec 1st 2008 Idea: Game theoryNov 24th 2008 Idea: Business modellingNov 10th 2008Frank Ostroff's book "The Horizontal Organisation" reflected late 20th-century thinking about organisational structure.
"This is the start of a church with not just a vertical but horizontal organisation".
Open-source software, Wikipedia, the creative commons and social media make commoning possible while affirming the ethos of horizontal organisation.
What he wanted, he was quoted as saying in October, was a church "with not just a vertical but horizontal organisation".
This involves a change from vertical organisation (where one company provides the hardware, software, online service, shops etc) to a horizontal organisation (where different companies provide the chips, operating system, services etc).
Elijah Magnier, chief international correspondent for Al-Rai Media, said Isis is not a horizontal organisation and instead has a Shura council, or a committee of members, who would appoint the next leader in the event of Baghdadi's death.
The Labour leadership has had almost nothing to do with them: instead, far away from Westminster, they have been put on the agenda by people and organisations who understand where civilisation is headed: towards more "horizontal" organisation via social media and activity that can amass huge momentum in a matter of hours.
These rules influence the organizational setting and organizational relations action scale, i.e. '… the vertical and horizontal relations between organisations.
Finally, our mapping exercise brings the relevance of coordination into perspective that makes it possible to empirically define and specify the level of 'integration' between management and professionalism in vertical (macro-level/state and hospital governance; top-level and department level of the organisation) and horizontal (costs and quality) directions.
Thus, networks imply a challenge to pyramidal, vertical or horizontal structures of an organisation; they foster communication and efficient work by means of information and communication technologies, (Pérez and Castañeda 2009, Steiner and Ploder 2011, Castells, 1998).
