| Summary: | This study aimed to revisit the research conducted by Drago (1) in organizations, in another object
of study: temporary organizations (TO). Projects, treated in this study as temporary organizations,
are organizations that have several characteristics similar to the traditional organizations here
treated as permanent (PO), but with temporality aspects and different objectives. An empirical
research was carried out with 208 professionals who worked in temporary organizations on
Mintzberg's Organizational Design Theory lens and the five ideal structures called the Mintzberg’s
pentagon. The results showed that TOs show different structural aspects, comparing with POs, and
that when presented in a "pure" way, they are mostly bureaucratic and non-adhocratic, contrasting
with what the related theories usually endorse. When they are organized in a hybrid way, TOs
assume many of the characteristics of the simple structure, with direct, non-autonomous and
organic mechanisms of coordination as expected.
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