organizationvary
Organizationvary is a theoretical construct in organizational studies that describes how and why organizations differ from one another in structure, processes, culture, and practices. It focuses on inter-organizational variation across industries, geographies, and organizational life cycles, rather than variation within a single organization.
Key dimensions include organizational form (bureaucratic versus organic structures), governance and decision rights, strategy and goals,
Researchers measure organizationvary through indices or variance-based metrics across a population of organizations, such as entropy
Significance and critiques: Understanding organizationvary helps explain why similar firms perform differently and why standardized approaches