TY - JOUR AB - This paper aims to create and validate a scale that will serve to measure the construct “organic structure”, currently of great utility for the competitive analysis of firms. On the basis of the literature, eight dimensions, corresponding to the parameters technical system, formalization, centralization, structural complexity, planning and control systems, training, information flows, and culture, form this construct. To verify the reliability and the validity of this measuring instrument we used a sample of 150 large Spanish firms. VL - 1 IS - 1 SN - 1536-5433 DO - 10.1108/15365430380000521 UR - https://doi.org/10.1108/15365430380000521 AU - Cruz Sonia AU - Camps Joaquín PY - 2003 Y1 - 2003/01/01 TI - Organic vs. Mechanistic Structures: Construction and Validation of a Scale of Measurement T2 - Management Research: Journal of the Iberoamerican Academy of Management PB - MCB UP Ltd SP - 111 EP - 123 Y2 - 2024/04/23 ER -