New Approaches to Organization Design Theory and Practice of Adaptive Enterprises /

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Bl̜lingtoft, Anne. (Editor), Hk̄onsson, Dorthe Dj̜bak. (Editor), Nielsen, Jr̜n Flohr. (Editor), Snow, Charles C. (Editor), Ulhi̜, John. (Editor)
• Format: Electronic
• Language: English
• Published: Boston, MA : Springer US, 2009.
• Series: Information and Organization Design Series, 8
• Subjects: Economics.; Business planning.; Economics/Management Science.; Business/Management Science, general.; Organization/Planning.; Human Resource Management.
• Online Access: https://ezaccess.library.uitm.edu.my/login?url=http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4419-0627-4

Organization design (OD) is a key feature of management theory and practice. It addresses the challenges of constructing and maintaining effective organizations. Essential to its application is the assumption that it can improve organizations and their performance. Faced with the ever-accelerating p...

Table of Contents:

• Introduction: Use of Theory in Organization Design Research
• Part 1: Towards New Organizational Forms. 1. Blade.org: A Collaborative Community of Firms. 2. Network-level Task and the Design of Whole Networks: Is There a Relationship?- Part 2: Dynamics of Adaptation and Change. 3. Organizational Tradeoffs and the Dynamics of Adaptation in Permeable Structures. 4. Unpacking Dynamic Capability: A Design Perspective. 5. Predicting Organizational Reconfiguration. 6. Embedding Virtuality into Organization Design Theory: Virtuality and Its Information Processing Consequences
• Part 3: Fit and Performance. 7. Learning-before-doing and Learning-in-action: Bridging the Gap Between Innovation Adoption, Implementation, and Performance. 8. Underfits versus Overfits in the Contingency Theory of Organizational Design: Asymmetric Effects of Misfits on Performance. Index.