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New Approaches to Organization Design

Theory and Practice of Adaptive Enterprises

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Editors:
  1. Anne Bøllingtoft

    1. Aarhus School of Business, University of Aarhus, Aarhus V, Denmark

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  2. Dorthe Døjbak Håkonsson

    1. Aarhus School of Business, University of Aarhus, Aarhus V, Denmark

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  3. Jørn Flohr Nielsen

    1. Aarhus School of Business, University of Aarhus, Aarhus V, Denmark

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  4. Charles C. Snow

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

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  5. John Ulhøi

    1. Aarhus School of Business, University of Aarhus, Aarhus V, Denmark

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  • Third in a group of books emerging from ongoing workshops on the state of the art in organization design
  • International coverage, with authors from the U.S., Europe, and Israel
  • Includes examples of innovative practices in different types of organizations
  • Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras

Part of the book series: Information and Organization Design Series (INOD, volume 8)

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Table of contents (8 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xxiv
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  2. Toward New Organizational Forms

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1
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    2. Blade.Org: A Collaborative Community of Firms

      • Charles C. Snow, Doreen R. Strauss, Christopher Lettl
      Pages 3-21

    3. Network-Level Task and the Design of Whole Networks: Is There a Relationship?

      • Patrick Kenis, Keith G. Provan, Peter M. Kruyen
      Pages 23-40

  3. Dynamics of Adaptation and Change

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 41-41
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    2. Organizational Trade-Offs and the Dynamics of Adaptation in Permeable Structures

      • Stephan Billinger, Nils Stieglitz
      Pages 43-60

    3. Unpacking Dynamic Capability: A Design Perspective

      • Deborah E.M. Mulders, A. Georges L. Romme
      Pages 61-78

    4. Predicting Organizational Reconfiguration

      • Timothy N. Carroll, Samina Karim
      Pages 79-97

    5. Embedding Virtuality into Organization Design Theory: Virtuality and Its Information Processing Consequences

      • Kent Wickstrøm Jensen, Dorthe Døjbak Håkonsson, Richard M Burton, Børge Obel
      Pages 99-119

  5. Back Matter

    Pages 169-170
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About this book

Organization design is a key feature of management theory and practice. It addresses the challenges of constructing and maintaining effective organizations. Essential to organizational design is the assumption that it can improve organizations.

Faced with the ever-accelerating pace of technological change and the restructuring of markets, many firms have been questioning their own organization. This book is the third to emerge from a series of workshops on organization design, featuring new empirical research and theoretical insights. The chapters are organized around four central themes: 1) Towards New Organizational Forms, 2) Dynamics of Adaptation and Change, 3) Theoretical and Practical issues, 4) Fit and Performance. Collectively, the chapters reflect the state of the art of OD as well as provide a further step towards the evolution of this important field of research.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Aarhus School of Business, University of Aarhus, Aarhus V, Denmark

    Anne Bøllingtoft, Dorthe Døjbak Håkonsson, Jørn Flohr Nielsen, John Ulhøi

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

    Charles C. Snow

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: New Approaches to Organization Design

  • Book Subtitle: Theory and Practice of Adaptive Enterprises

  • Editors: Anne Bøllingtoft, Dorthe Døjbak Håkonsson, Jørn Flohr Nielsen, Charles C. Snow, John Ulhøi

  • Series Title: Information and Organization Design Series

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4419-0627-4

  • Publisher: Springer New York, NY

  • eBook Packages: Business and Economics, Business and Management (R0)

  • Copyright Information: Springer-Verlag US 2009

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-4419-0626-7Published: 07 August 2009

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-1-4614-2931-9Published: 25 February 2012

  • eBook ISBN: 978-1-4419-0627-4Published: 24 July 2009

  • Series ISSN: 1568-2668

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XXIV, 172

  • Number of Illustrations: 21 b/w illustrations

  • Topics: Organization, Business and Management, general, Human Resource Management

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