Organization design

This volume of 'Advances in Strategic Management'explores emerging trends and contemporary research in the field of organization design. It reflects a renewed focus on the universal problems of organizingthe division of labor and the integration of effort. At the same time, it incorporates...

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Other Authors John, Joseph (Editor), Baumann, Oliver (Editor), Burton, Richard M. (Editor), Srikanth, Kannan (Editor)
Format Electronic eBook
LanguageEnglish
Published Bingley, U.K. : Emerald Publishing Limited, 2018.
SeriesAdvances in strategic management ; v. 40.
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Online AccessFull text
ISBN9781787563292
9781787563315
ISSN0742-3322 ;
DOI10.1108/S0742-3322201840
Physical Description1 online resource (xiii, 339 pages) ; cm.

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Table of Contents:
  • Prelims
  • Reviewing, revisiting, and renewing the foundations of organization design
  • Part I Fit and coordination
  • Designing a culture of collaboration: when changing beliefs is (not) enough
  • Toward a theory of organizational integration
  • Part II Configurations and control
  • The genesis of control configurations during organizational founding
  • Balanced control as an enabler of organizational ambidexterity
  • Part III Division of labor and organizational learning
  • Exploration and negative feedback behavioral learning, escalation of commitment, and organizational design
  • Differentiation and integration in organizational learning: a garbage can model
  • Part IV Structure and strategy
  • Organization design and competitive strategy: an application to the case of divisionalization
  • Organization design and firm heterogeneity: towards an integrated research agenda for strategy
  • Part V New organizational forms and problem solving
  • Forming a collaborative community: an agent-based simulation study of the effects of membership composition
  • Limits to the wisdom of the crowd in idea selection
  • Limits to the wisdom of the crowd in idea selection
  • Index.