Episode 16 of the Talking About Organizations Podcast about the classic article “Differentiation and Integration in Complex Organizations”, published by Paul Lawrence and Jay Lorsch in Administrative Science Quarterly in 1967. In this classic work, Lawrence and Lorsch investigate the relation between organizational characteristics and their environment, and stipulate that an organization’s economic performance is determined by its ability to meet integration and differentiation requirements according to their environment.

Original release can be found here: https://www.talkingaboutorganizations.com/e16/