Designing organizations: 21st century approaches

Designing Organizations: 21st Century Approaches is a benchmark publication in the field of organization design. The recent development in organization design has been sporadic; hence, this book will be an important step in creating more thoughtful research and stronger empirical analyses that take advantage of advances in estimation methods allowing for more complex causal modeling andstimulation technologies. Featured in the book are the more practical elements of implementing OD in organizations. The chapter material is organized into five sections: (1) Putting Contingency Theory in its Place, (2) Focus on Individuals who make up the Organization, (3) Innovation Processes and OrganizationDesign, (4) Adaptation and Technology, and (5) Design for Performance. The book will be a broad discussion of topics in the field, but still each individual chapter will provide in-depth analysis of the topic. Will be of considerableinterest to students and researchers in Management and Organization in Business Schools, Organization Theory in the Social Sciences, and in Business Information Systems Organizational design is a core research area in both Managementand Organization and Business Information Systems INDICE: From the contents The conflict between contingency and institutional theories of organizational structure and its resolution for organizational design.- Evolutionary and contingency approaches to organizational structure.-Methodological considerations in testing structural contingency theory.- Integrating organizational emotions into psychological climate – the effect on organizational information processing.- Organizing for asymmetric collaboration.-The adaptability of team designs.- The strive towards effectiveness and efficiency.- Opening up the innovation process via different organizational design strategies.- Understanding and managing contradictions in large and mature firm innovation.- Exploratory innovation, exploitative innovation, and performance: effects of organizational antecedents and environmental moderators.- Will modular products and organizations improve lead-time in product development?.- Organizational change in response to technological change.

• ISBN: 978-0-387-77775-7
• Editorial: Springer
• Encuadernacion: Cartoné
• Páginas: 258
• Fecha Publicación: 01/05/2008
• Nº Volúmenes: 1
• Idioma: Inglés