Faced with the ever-accelerating pace of technological change
and the restructuring of markets, many firms have been questioning
the appropriateness of their own organizational structure and
effectiveness. Consequently, we have witnessed much organizational
experimentation and the development of new forms of organizing over
the last decade. Firms are more dependent than ever on the need for
continuous and radical innovations - and often innovations that go
beyond their existing businesses. This challenges firms in terms of
knowledge and idea sharing, and often necessitates the need to
expand beyond the boundaries of the single firm for multi-party
collaboration to meet serious challenges and develop creative
solutions.
Drawing from the Fourth International Workshop on Organization
Design, and featuring contributions from an international array of
specialists, this volume focuses on the expansion beyond the
boundaries of the single firm and multi-firm networks, to include,
for example, community-based organization designs. A community is a
connected set of firms; the connections can take on many different
dimensions. For organization design theory, community-based
organizations have many implications. For one, organization design
theory has to identify and describe designs that enhance
collaborative behavior among firms without restricting the ability
of the individual firm to continue to compete within its own
marketplace. Moreover, organization design theory also has to
identify and describe information processing strategies and designs
that allow the continuous generation, sharing, and application of
existing information and knowledge.
The development of effective collaborative community designs is
critically important to the global economy because, increasingly,
our future depends on pursuing shared goals and sustainably
developing our global commons. Ideally, the ideas and findings in
this book will contribute to increased attention to new
organization designs capable of meeting 21st-century opportunities
and challenges.
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