The advantage of this approach is that it retains the basic fibre-plus-matrix structure of the material.

ECONOMIST: Monitor

Leading the fashion was Philips, a Dutch multinational electronics company, which first set up a matrix structure after the second world war.

ECONOMIST: Idea

In a matrix structure, responsibility for the products goes up and down one dimension and responsibility for the markets goes up and down another.

ECONOMIST: Idea

These planned measures are expected to include elimination of the company's matrix organizational structure, site consolidation, transfer of activities to global delivery centers, consolidation of certain central functions, cost synergies from the integration of Motorola's wireless assets, efficiencies in service operations, and company-wide process simplification.

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Matrix management is a structure for running those companies that have both a diversity of products and a diversity of markets.

ECONOMIST: Idea

Some form of matrix or organizational structure is essential for running any large company.

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It has probably done more to change the way people think about what Foster calls "the culture of office buildings" and the relation of the corporate to the public domain in a city's matrix than any other 20th century structure.

CNN: ASIANOW - TIME Asia

The new solar structure consists of n-type nanocones made of zinc oxide surrounded by a p-type semiconductor matrix made of polycrystalline cadmium telluride.

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