Costa coffee - Mintzberg's organisational model

Costa coffee is multinational coffeehouse company with its headquarters in the United Kingdom. It is the principal coffeehouse in the UK and among the largest chains of coffeehouses in the world. It was founded in 1971 operating as a wholesale supplier of roasted coffee to the coffee shops and caterers. It has dynamically expanded and assumes the state of a whole owned auxiliary. According to Henry Mintzberg, organizations are different in three basic ways. These include the organizational key part that is fundamental in determining failure or success, the prime means of coordination and nature of decentralization used. The type and extent of a strategy applied by an organization results in various structures such as the simple, professional, machine bureaucracy and adhocracy (Hashemi,