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The best stuff is no longer in print; I was lucky enough to be exposed to some of it by one of my most cherished management professors nearly two decades ago. I have my opinionated, possibly vitriolic, theories as to why this literature shortage exists. Suffice it to say that more complicated, less sexy, management approaches that were honed in engineering and other R&D environments some four decades ago don't garner much interest from many of today's business book publishers. There's neither management magic nor mysticism in the matrix approach. This is about the hard-driving, producing organization — not fluff-of-the-month. A disciplined, methodical approach is required and, in case you haven't noticed, this is in relatively short supply and it suffers from less-than-burning popularity. If your organization is ill-positioned for a disciplined, methodical approach to work organization and management, you may want to lobby quietly against matrix management and on behalf of a different — meaning slower, simpler, less powerful — approach in your organization. I'm serious.