”Playing Market” in Oticon: Problems of Disaggregating Internal Organization
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At the beginning of the 1990s, Danish hearing aid producer, Oticon became world famous for its radical empowerment and delegation experiment, called the ”spaghetti organization.” Almost a decade later, most of the more radical elements of the spaghetti organization have been changed. This paper tells the story of the spaghetti organization and its subsequent transformation, and speculates on the causes of the transformation.
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