New Organizational Forms, Controls, and Institutions Understanding the Tensions in ‘Post-Bureaucratic' Organizations /

• Main Authors: Annosi, Maria Carmela (Author), Brunetta, Federica (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2017.
• Subjects: Business.; Leadership.; Organization.; Planning.; Manpower policy.; Management information systems.; Office management.; Business and Management.; Business Strategy/Leadership.; Enterprise Architecture.; Human Resource Development.; Office Management.

This book highlights the growing number of ‘post-bureaucratic’ firms that are abandoning hierarchical organizational forms in favor of self-managing teams. Addressing the need to outperform, these new organization types foresee the benefits of an organic structure with new and more indirect forms of...

Table of Contents:

• 1. Introduction
• 2. Institutions and Organizations: The Role of Institutional Actors
• 3. External Institutional Pressures
• 4. New Organizational Forms
• 5. Institutions and the Role of Organizational Controls
• 6. Linking Organizational Control and Organizational Learning: Theory
• 7. Linking Organizational Control and Organizational Learning: Research Approach and Methodology
• 8. Linking Organizational Controls and Organizational Learning: Evidences
• Chapter 9. Managerial Challenges, Avenues for Research and Conclusions.