A Review of Organization Complexity Management

With ever-growing complexity,traditional complexity theory claims using complexity of organization to cope with complexity of environment,and believes that organization survives only when its complexity exceeds that of environment.In practice,more and more companies alternate their attention from adapting complexity to applying complexity for competitive advantage.However,high lever of organizational complexity may induce such problems as increasing run cost,decreasing marketing influence,obstructing organization learning and so-called insignificant event causing big or break results.This paper believes that the core of organization complexity management is to sustain a certain lever of organization complexity in order to fit environment complexity,and such questions as which complexity should be increased or decreased,how to be controlled and used,needed to be answered.