On the issue of building an effective organizational structure of Russian corporations

In modern conditions under the influence of difficult factors of the external environment the behaviour of the Russian corporations changes that in turn demands the change of their organizational structure. The structure of corporation has to be flexible and adaptive, quickly be reconstructed and adapt to requirements of both the external and internal environment. In the economic practice of the Russian corporations' other situation which is caused by various reasons which aren’t allowing to consider changes in the external environment and as appropriate to change organizational structure is traced. Many domestic scientists investigated features of organizational structures of the Russian companies, applying the system approach allowing to consider the behaviour of corporations in general as the system in the researchers. Therefore in this article practical questions of the creation of organizational structures of the Russian corporations as the schematical display of organizational structure of any vertically integrated oil company gives information on the system of submission and a taxonomy and also on the place of key divisions and services in a structure of corporation are considered. Besides such scheme doesn’t reflect the real situation in the corporation, her administrative processes and the real relations of submission and a taxonomy. In this regard in article shortcomings of organizational structures on the example of the vertically integrated oil companies which are bulky and not rational, and, therefore, not flexible in corporate management, excessive bureaucratization and concentration on control functions that leads to duplication of production and marketing structures are revealed. A specific place in the article is held by the development of the strategy of corporation depending on its structure. Not the flexible and irrational structure of the Russian corporations doesn’t allow them to realize strategy and plans as they are hostages of the structure