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New Organizational Forms, Controls, and Institutions

Understanding the Tensions in ‘Post-Bureaucratic' Organizations

Palgrave Macmillan
  • Focuses on a multi-level setting, accounting for cognitive categories, conventions, expectations, rules, routines and logics.
  • Takes a relevant and modern approach enabling readers to understand issues from a managerial and strategic standpoint.
  • Presents an analysis of strengths and critical issues of new forms of organizations.

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Table of contents (9 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xi
  2. Introduction

    • Maria Carmela Annosi, Federica Brunetta
    Pages 1-15
  3. Institutions and Organizations: The Role of Institutional Actors

    • Maria Carmela Annosi, Federica Brunetta
    Pages 17-30
  4. External Institutional Pressures

    • Maria Carmela Annosi, Federica Brunetta
    Pages 31-44
  5. New Organizational Forms

    • Maria Carmela Annosi, Federica Brunetta
    Pages 45-70
  6. Institutions and the Role of Organizational Controls

    • Maria Carmela Annosi, Federica Brunetta
    Pages 71-87
  7. Linking Organizational Controls and Organizational Learning: Theory

    • Maria Carmela Annosi, Federica Brunetta
    Pages 89-110
  8. Linking Organizational Controls and Organizational Learning: Evidences

    • Maria Carmela Annosi, Federica Brunetta
    Pages 139-189
  9. Managerial Challenges, Avenues for Research, and Conclusions

    • Maria Carmela Annosi, Federica Brunetta
    Pages 191-205
  10. Back Matter

    Pages 207-212

About this book

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 control, and aim to coordinate the activities of highly-skilled workers without relying on a bureaucratic superstructure. The chapters explore the tensions that exist between external and internal institutional forces. As new forms of control strategies emerge, mostly value-based, this book accounts for the cognitive categories, conventions, rules and logic that should be integrated and combined with traditional forms of managerial controls in order to enable co-existence with established bureaucratic frameworks. This book will be of interest to academics in the fields of organizational behavior and innovation management, and also practitioners and managers aiming to shift from a traditional hierarchical structure to post-bureaucratic forms.

Authors and Affiliations

  • Wageningen University, Wageningen, The Netherlands

    Maria Carmela Annosi

  • LUISS Guido Carli University , Rome, Italy

    Federica Brunetta

About the authors

Maria Carmela Annosi is Assistant Professor at the Management Studies Group of the School of Social Sciences at Wageningen University, The Netherlands. She received her PhD at KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden, and has been a Visiting Scholar at Rotterdam School of Management, Erasmus University, Netherlands. Fellow in Management at LUISS Guido Carli University, Italy, her research interests include knowledge and innovation management. 

Federica Brunetta is Assistant Professor at the Department of Business and Management, LUISS Guido Carli University, Italy. She received a PhD from the Catholic University of Sacred Heart, Italy, and has been a Visiting Scholar at the University of Michigan’s Ross School of Business, USA. Her research interests include strategy and management of innovation. 

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: New Organizational Forms, Controls, and Institutions

  • Book Subtitle: Understanding the Tensions in ‘Post-Bureaucratic' Organizations

  • Authors: Maria Carmela Annosi, Federica Brunetta

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-54750-3

  • Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham

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

  • Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2017

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-54749-7Published: 28 August 2017

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-85470-0Published: 03 August 2018

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-54750-3Published: 11 August 2017

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XI, 212

  • Number of Illustrations: 5 b/w illustrations

  • Topics: Business Strategy/Leadership, Enterprise Architecture, Organization, Human Resource Development, Office Management

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Softcover Book USD 159.99
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  • Dispatched in 3 to 5 business days
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Hardcover Book USD 159.99
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