Formal and informal organizations

2018-01-06 For organizations that are “closed” (have barriers to participation), Two types.

• Formal organizations that can be observed from the outside, such as a “corporation.”
• Informal organizations whose existence itself is invisible except to those who belong to the organization

Closed informal organizations are less exposed, so we tend to think of “closed formal” in terms of closed organizations

For example, “a group of friends who belong to different companies but have a strong relationship of trust” have different resources and knowledge from each other, so they can be a win-win relationship by accommodating each other. This is a closed informal organization.

Creating closed informal organizations that straddle the walls of formal organizations is useful to promote knowledge circulation and increase opportunities for new combinations.

relevance

• Building Human Networks
  • A collection of organizations connected by people belonging to multiple organizations

There are two types of closed organizations.

• Difficult to observe
• bias to think of things that are easy to observe.

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