The importance of effective organizational structures in the battle for competitiveness

The significance and the influence of the concurrential environment are crucially important for enterprisers. So, the firms’ leaderships are now obliged to give up the mentality of the “exclusively inner look” and to take into account, effectively, the concurrential environment in which they function in their actions of reprojection of the managerial system in general and especially of their organizational structures. The faster the enterprise can adapt its organizational structure to the new demands, the higher its capacity to survive is. Consequently, the flexibility of the organizational structure becomes an essential condition for enterprises. Key-Word: concurrence; innovative processoriented, lean management, total quality management, orientation towards clients.