Intermediate Organization : An Emerging Structure

Abstract

Economic., technological and social changes compel organizations to adapt themselves to the new environment to survive and prosper. This is true of large as well as small organizations. Both find that, often, their size hinders them from achieving their goals. AS a result, a new form of organization, intermediate organization, emerges. The paper illustrates the new mode by citing a few cases of intermediate organization and argues that a new mode of organizational analysis has to be evolved, for neither intra- nor inter-organization analysis appears adequate for understanding the new mode.