Toker, KeremCinar, Dilaysu2024-03-132024-03-132014978-1-4666-4640-7978-1-4666-4639-12326-91032326-9111https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-4666-4639-1.ch025https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12662/3884The importance of innovation for enterprises increases each passing day. As a result of globalization, enterprises are under intense competitive pressure. They have to make innovation for increasing \ market share or for protecting it. Non-innovative firms lose their customers and their existence faces a threat from other innovative actors in the market. Therefore, firms have to design their organization structure that encourage innovation. Mintzberg's innovative organization structure is investigated in this chapter. Mintzberg's five-part organizational structure is described briefly in this chapter, and a case study, which is related to innovative (adhocratic) organization structure, is performed. Thus, its aim is to identify the diversity between theory and practice via of the theoretical knowledge. As a result of the study, a high degree of similarity between the application and Mintzberg's theory, which is related to innovative organization structure, is identified.eninfo:eu-repo/semantics/closedAccessBook Chapter10.4018/978-1-4666-4639-1.ch0252-s2.0-84945162294333N/A319WOS:000416704600026N/A