AN EMPIRICAL-STUDY OF THE IMPACT OF JUST-IN-TIME TASK SCOPE VERSUS JUST-IN-TIME WORKFLOW INTEGRATION ON ORGANIZATIONAL DESIGN

The research tests a theory of JIT as a technology having task scope v ersus workflow integration dimensions. The results show that JIT task scope predicts JIT workflow integration, and that only the former is a ssociated with organizational designs that are more specialized, decen tralized, integrated, and reliant on formal performance measurement co ntrol. The findings imply that organizational structure does not neces sarily follow from workflow structure. Rather, both organizational str ucture and workflow structure follow from the knowledge capital that S IT task scope represents.