the relationship between strategy and structure

An effective organization depend on developing a cohesive set of relations between structure, strategy, technology and environment.
The organization is the fundamental instrument for the realization of management since it has the aim to find the best way to arrange the resources and the routine, to coordinate the development of activities. It is then natural that, for the realization of certain strategies, you need certain types of structures and when you decide to change the strategic orientations or behaviours you cannot avoid to consider the necessities of related organizational changes. Often organizational deficiencies, due to luck of adaptation, compromise the results of the pursued strategic plan, so that efficient managerial strategies fail because of organizational inadequacy.
When you deal with static enterprises who function in non particularly adverse environments permeated through traditional cultures there are no problems of convergence between strategy and structure ...