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PROJECT MANAGEMENT JOURNAL
Volume 54, Issue 3, Pages 306-321Publisher
SAGE PUBLICATIONS INC
DOI: 10.1177/87569728221150897
Keywords
organizational coordination; hierarchy steepness; coordination intensity; coordination power; social network analysis; project-based organization
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This study aimed to investigate the impact of hierarchy steepness on intra-organizational coordination in project-based organizations (PBOs). The results showed that hierarchy steepness had a positive relationship with organizational coordination intensity, but a negative relationship with individual coordination power. These findings challenged the previous notion that hierarchy hinders coordination and highlighted the benefits of a steeper hierarchy. The implications suggest that PBOs should consider strengthening their hierarchical structure to improve intra-organizational coordination.
This study aims to reveal the impacts of hierarchy steepness on intraorganizational coordination in project-based organizations (PBOs) at both organizational and individual levels. We discovered that hierarchy steepness has a positive correlation with organizational coordination intensity but a negative correlation with an individual's coordination power. A steeper hierarchy is beneficial for intraorganizational coordination so, averagely, an individual's coordination power weakens in well-coordinated organizations. The findings refuted previous arguments that took hierarchy as an obstacle to coordination and proved the functionality of a steeper hierarchy. They suggest PBOs steepen the hierarchical structure to improve intraorganizational coordination.
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