I agree with @gaberuiz13 that the organizational structure can lead to different company cultures and those in turn can have an affect on projects. There are many different types of companies and projects some might foster a better company culture in a functional organization or maybe a collaborative teams in a project-based organization or maybe a hybrid in the matrix organization. There is an interesting article in the New York Times “What Google Learned from Its Quest to Build the Perfect Team”. In 2012 Google’s initiative to find what makes a perfect team was called “Project Aristotle” and through all there data no matter how the researchers arranged it, it was hard to find patterns. However, they found that “psychological safety” pointed to particular norms that are vital to success. “Project Aristotle is a reminder that when companies try to optimize everything, it’s sometimes easy to forget that success is often built on experiences — like emotional interactions and complicated conversations and discussions of who we want to be and how our teammates make us feel.” I think this article is interesting because after analyzing 51,000 employees it came down to how project groups made one feel. I think that the organizational structure directly relates to the company culture and that the company culture directly relates to how an employee feels. I think for a successful project there has to be a good company culture where the employees feel they can voice their opinion and be supported rather than have negative competition. I think all organizational types can lead to successful projects if the right leadership and culture are implemented to foster successes not just with projects but down the individual employees.
nytimes/2016/02/28/magazine/what-google-learned-from-its-quest-to-build-the-perfect-team