Diseño de estructuras de control organizacionales como redes complejas: una propuesta de estudio

Abstract

Introduction: Several investigations have demonstrated the importance of the organizational structure in the performance of companies, due to the influence it exerts in the forms as the information is processed for the decision making. To date the dominant structure in the business context has been the hierarchy of control characterized by tree topology. Nevertheless, numerous investigations have evidenced the precariousness of these structures to process information, an aspect that is manifested in slowness and fragility in the decision making, and by extension is constituted in cause of business failure. This article was written in 2017 at the Faculty of Engineering of the Francisco José de Caldas District University, Bogotá, Colombia. Methodology: For the paper development a revision of the main limitations of the tree topology and by extension of the failures that the hierarchical structures of control are presented. As well as the characteristics and features of complex networks are revised, emphasizing the aspects that ex-plain its robustness, and punctually the capacity of information processing, and that therefore constitute an alternative to overcome the limitations of the hierarchy of control. From this review, the implications of the adoption of this type of structure in business organizations could be raised. Results: Complex networks as organizational control structures mean a new form of management that aims to adapt to the changing and dynamic conditions of a complex environment, additionally presents a great number of advantages over dominant structures of the traditional paradigm such as hierarchical and pyramidal structures. Conclusions: This new proposal is subject to be studied and proven through various techniques such as agent-based simulation or empirical studies that allow to solve the various questions that have arisen.