Organization Design The evolving state-of-the-art /

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Burton, Richard M. (Editor), Håkonsson, Dorthe Døjbak (Editor), Eriksen, Bo (Editor), Snow, Charles C. (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Boston, MA : Springer US, 2006.
• Series: Information and Organization Design Series, 6
• Subjects: Business.; Management science.; Management.; Organization.; Planning.; Industrial management.; Operations research.; Decision making.; Business and Management.; Operation Research/Decision Theory.; Information Systems Applications (incl. Internet).; Innovation/Technology Management.; Business and Management, general.

Organization Design: The Evolving State-of-the-Art outlines the larger role that organizational design is increasingly playing in management theory and practice. The book's chapters review the main theoretical perspectives on organization design, identify important theoretical and practical iss...

Table of Contents:

• Theoretical and Practical Issues
• The Configurational Approach to Organization Design: Four Recommended Initiatives
• The Contingency Theory of Organizational Design: Challenges and Opportunities
• FIT, Contingency, and Configuration
• Examining the Relationship Between Trust and Control in Organizational Design
• Structural Limitations in Organizational Design
• The Many Faces of Fit
• The Fit Between National Cultures, Organizing and Managing
• Design and Performance
• Organizational Design, Learning, and the Market Value of the Firm
• New Developments in Contingency Fit Theory
• Organization Design Constraints on Strategy and Performance
• Action Leadership, Multi-Contingency Theory and Fit
• The Dynamics of Adaptation and Change
• Management and Genghis Khan: Lessons for Multinational Business Enterprises
• Designing Firms for Knowledge Acquisition and Absorptive Capacity
• Models of Change, Organizational Redesign, and the Adoption of Web Technologies
• Governance Channels and Organizational Design at General Electric: 1950–2001.