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Designing Organizations

21st Century Approaches

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  • © 2008

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  • Will be of considerable interest 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 Management and Organization and Business Information Systems. Driving this research interest is the wide scale of integration of information technology into the organization structure of today’s business, government and NPO organizations
  • Increasingly, the integration of IT tools influence how organizations structure themselves to meet their objectives and missions, and it is these developments that necessitate the need to examine and up-date the field of OD
  • Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras

Part of the book series: Information and Organization Design Series (INOD, volume 7)

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Table of contents (12 chapters)

  1. Contingency, Institutional, and Evolutionary Theory

  2. The Design of Organizational Processes

  3. Part II: The Design of Organizational Processes

  4. Innovation: Overcoming Inertia and Conflicts

  5. Part III: Innovation: Overcoming Inertia and Conflicts

  6. Firm Performance

  7. Part IV: Firm Performance

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About this book

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 and stimulation 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 Organization Design, (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.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Fuqua School of Business, Duke University, Durham, U.S.A.

    Richard M. Burton

  • Dept. Organization & Management, University of Southern Denmark, Odense M, Denmark

    Bo Eriksen, Thorbjørn Knudsen

  • Aarhus School of Business, Dept. Management, University of Aarhus, Aarhus V, Denmark

    Dorthe Døjbak Håkonsson

  • Dept. of Management & Organization, Pennsylvania State University, University Park, U.S.A.

    Charles C. Snow

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