Overview
- 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)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
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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
About the authors
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