Modelo de estructura organizacional para el fomento de la auto-organización empresarial: incrementado su agilidad para dar respuesta a las condiciones cambiantes del entorno.

Abstract

Hierarchical control structures in companies are slow and inefficient in detecting and dealing with environmental stimuli, as they fail to collect, interpret and synthesize large volumes of information, which significantly hinders the exploitation of opportunities and the mitigation of environmental threats. Currently, efforts have been made to reduce this tendency by means of structures adaptable to environmental conditions, such as networked, cellular or project-based structures, among others. It has been found that, although the performance of these organizations increases significantly, they do not fully improve their ability to respond to these conditions because they still retain the principles of control hierarchies and also inherit their problems. From the review of the literature on complex adaptive systems, it was found that they are the most efficient in information processing and particularly the property of self-organization, can overcome the deficiencies of the current organizational structures. This paper uses a methodology that gathers qualitative and quantitative epistemological principles from grounded research to design a structure model that fosters self-organization and increases organizational agility; that is, increasing the speed at which organizations can take advantage of opportunities and mitigate environmental threats. This model was validated by means of agent-based simulation, which would allow comparing the characteristics of an organizational structure that promotes the emergence of self-organization in companies with respect to a traditional hierarchical structure. As a result of this research, it is expected to evaluate whether the proposed structure follows self-organization principles and improves organizational agility.