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Designing the structure of organization is one of the most important issues confronting all managers, especially those in large corporations. Structure design process consists of making several trade-offs about parameters that are affected with various contingency factors. This leads manages to confusion so some of them have no plans for progressing this process. Referring to organization theory and design, one sees a large number of models of organizational structure design. But there is not any means to compare them with each other. In this research, next the introduction of a conceptual feed-back model of organizational structure design process, three well-known processes in the last... 

Corporations play a significant role in countries economy. These companies are usually active in multi and diverse businesses. Their business diversification could be based on technological capabilities. Therefore it's important to consider the relation between technology strategy (eventually leads to technological capabilities) and the strategy of diversification (as an overall strategy) at acorporate level. Unfortunately, there's no a proper theoretical framework to underpin this relation or offer a method for practical decision-makings. The aim of this research is to fill partially this gap and purpose a new framework for linking technology to business diversification at a corporate...