CORPORATE FUNCTIONS DISTRIBUTION IN A MULTI-ENTITY ORGANIZATION STRUCTURE Functional to process approach

Abstract

This article presents corporate functions location within a multi-entity organization structure including functional and process approaches. The realization of the specified goal and the theoretical nature of the study determine the following parts: introduction, corporate functions in modern organizations, possible variants of function location in traditional model (functional) and their modification into common service centre, function distribution in terms of process and conclusions. The main reason for undertaking research in this area is the persisting tendency in domestic and foreign a multi-entity organization structure to secretion of processes and build process structures at the expense of traditional functional systems. Therefore, an attempt was made to present the location of functions in the shot traditional (functional) and process terms.

Keywords

• corporate functions
• a multi-entity organization
• the functional and process approach to managing an organization