Professional Adhocracy, an Appropriate Design for Knowledge Economy in the Light of Mintzberg's Perspective

Abstract

Success in the economy of digital age requires special capabilities. These capacities would be able to make the limited economical resources into valuable products. Among future limitations, limitation of super-specialized and expert human resources is very important and determining. Super-specialized human resources are considered as strategic factors and the structure of future organizations should be designed in a way to best utilize the capability of these resources. Therefore, the main problem of future organizations is exploiting and utilizing the knowledge of super-specialized human resources. In this regard, combining the flexibility of adhocratic organizations and expertise-oriented credit of professional bureaucratic tried to design a relatively appropriate structure in the light of Mintzberg’s perspective in order to succeed in future age or the knowledge-oriented age of digital economy.

Toward E-Participation on the Basis of Era based Cellular Planning System

“…This subsystem considered as a directing brain\intelligence of the system. If the ECP expands, this subsystem will be divided into various expert groups and will take on a network structure and when needed, it will use hybrid structures such as professional adhocracy (Pourezzat & Attar, 2009) to expand its abilities.…”