Business plasticity through disorganization

Disorganization occurs in all areas of modern business; and yet, disorganization has traditionally been viewed as a negative factor in business and organization performance. However, in a dynamic 21st century environment our conventional structured, rigid responses in dealing with such messiness are...

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Main Author Herath, Dinuka B. (Author)
Other Authors Secchi, Davide (writer of foreword.), Homberg, Fabian (Contributor), Herath, Gayanga B. (contibutor.)
Format Electronic eBook
LanguageEnglish
Published Bingley, U.K. : Emerald Publishing Limited, 2019.
Subjects
Organizational behavior.
Industrial organization.
elektronické knihy
electronic books
Online AccessFull text
ISBN9781787562110
9781787562134
DOI10.1108/9781787562110
Physical Description1 online resource (xxvii, 139 pages)

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Table of Contents:
  • Prelims
  • Chapter 1: Sorting the "mess" from the rest
  • Section A: Origins
  • Chapter 2: The problem with "order"
  • Chapter 3: Birth of disorganization
  • Section B: Understanding disorganization
  • Chapter 4: The logic of disorganization
  • Chapter 5: Coping with stochasticity
  • Chapter 6: Order in chaos
  • Section C: Implementing disorganization
  • Chapter 7: Goal-driven disorganization
  • Chapter 8: Structural disorganization
  • Chapter 9: Functional disorganization
  • Section D: Towards business plasticity
  • Chapter 10: Business plasticity
  • Chapter 11: Toward plasticity: disorganization as a sustainable capability
  • Section E: Implications
  • Chapter 12: Future of disorganization: a research agenda for scholars
  • Chapter 13: Studying the cognitive elements of disorganization
  • Chapter 14: Lessons for practice on the relevance of the study of "disorganization" for practitioners
  • Chapter 15: At the end of day
  • References
  • Index.

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