Organization design /

• Other Authors: John, Joseph (Editor), Baumann, Oliver (Editor), Burton, Richard M. (Editor), Srikanth, Kannan (Editor)
• Format: eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Bingley, U.K. : Emerald Publishing Limited, 2018.
• Series: Advances in strategic management ; v. 40.
• Subjects: Strategic planning.; Organizational change.; Business & Economics > Management.; Organizational theory & behaviour.

This volume of 'Advances in Strategic Management'explores emerging trends and contemporary research in the field of organization design. It reflects a renewed focus on the universal problems of organizingthe division of labor and the integration of effort. At the same time, it incorporates...

Table of Contents:

• Prelims
• Reviewing, revisiting, and renewing the foundations of organization design
• Part I Fit and coordination
• Designing a culture of collaboration: when changing beliefs is (not) enough
• Toward a theory of organizational integration
• Part II Configurations and control
• The genesis of control configurations during organizational founding
• Balanced control as an enabler of organizational ambidexterity
• Part III Division of labor and organizational learning
• Exploration and negative feedback behavioral learning, escalation of commitment, and organizational design
• Differentiation and integration in organizational learning: a garbage can model
• Part IV Structure and strategy
• Organization design and competitive strategy: an application to the case of divisionalization
• Organization design and firm heterogeneity: towards an integrated research agenda for strategy
• Part V New organizational forms and problem solving
• Forming a collaborative community: an agent-based simulation study of the effects of membership composition
• Limits to the wisdom of the crowd in idea selection
• Limits to the wisdom of the crowd in idea selection
• Index.