Plasticity in Network Organizations

Network organizations are flexible organizations that change rapidly to address the events in their volatile environments. These organizations are preferred to traditional organizations. The property of network organization that affords them rapid change is called plasticity. A model is presented for spontaneously formed network organization and the quality of plasticity is discussed in the context of the model. We outline how this model accounts for external changes in the environment with internal adjustments. A case study illustrates main tenets of our conceptualization.