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The Necessary Nature of Future Firms - Attributes of Survivors in a Changing World (Paperback, New)
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The Necessary Nature of Future Firms - Attributes of Survivors in a Changing World (Paperback, New)
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"George Huber has achieved an amazing feat in this book. He has eloquently described what it will take for companies to prosper in the future by drawing upon what we know today--what we really know, based on rigorous research--about speed flexibility, learning, and innovation. Anyone interested in preparing firms for tomorrow will benefit from this important book."
--Don Hambrick, Smeal Chaired Professor of Management, Pennsylvania State University
"Professor Huber has produced a valuable and very well researched guide for firms making the necessary transition to the knowledge economy. His sage advice and experiences will greatly help any organization navigate these tricky and dangerous waters."
--Dr. Lawrence Prusak, Former Executive Director, Institute for Knowledge Management?George Huber has written a wonderfully comprehensive and integrative book on organizational change, learning, and adaptation. Huber synthesizes the research-based work on change in a way that will be helpful to scholars, graduate students, as well as managers interested in organizational learning and change. The book is well written and provocative. It is a state of the art literature review with an experienced, practical point of view. This book belongs on both the scholar's desk as well as in the practitioner's office.?
--Paul R. Lawrence, MBA Class of 1942, Harvard Business School?In The Necessary Nature of Future Firms, George Huber does what Huber does best--paint a compelling vision of the design of (near) future organizations as well as the implications of this design. What differentiates Huber?s ?visioning? efforts from most others is that they are derived not from speculation but rather from the collective thinking of a generation of organizational scientists as interpreted through Huber?s own research and consulting experiences. This vision of how future firms will be designed (and, hence, how they will behave) emerges in fact from well-founded conceptualizations and validated observations.?
--Robert Zmud , University of Oklahoma
"This book is a must read for managers concerned with guiding their organizations into the information age. Management futurologists and academic writers have speculated on the features and characteristics of new organizational forms. The Necessary Nature of Future Firms by George Huber represents the first rigorous in-depth effort at anticipating the shape of new organizations by combining, recombining, and interpreting a vast management research literature and presenting it to managerial audiences. The book is very accessible to a broad managerial audience but especially to forward looking thoughtful managers concerned with the future of their organizations."
--Arie Y. Lewin, Professor, Director CIBER and JIBS Editor in Chief"The book offers yet another outstanding contribution by an author known for scholarship and insightful observations about the state of organizations and their management. The topic is timely and the book offers many useful ideas that will find their way into practice. I highly recommend it."
--Paul C. Nutt, Ohio State University"While many books deal with decision making and many more deal with environmental complexity, this is one of the first to lucidly tie them together and provide executives with the specific tools and mind-set necessary to bring about significant organizational change. The University of Wisconsin-Madison is a key driver of the integration of business and science, and this book will be a must-read for many of the students in our masters and executive education programs."--Mason A. Carpenter, Professor of Strategy and Entrepreneurship, University of WisconsinSurvival depends on the ability to read imminent shifts in the environment and respond accordingly. This holds true for any living system, but it is especially true for firms today. The business environment is now changing rapidly, but will change even more rapidly in the future. Only firms that can respond to these changes will survive. It is important to know, then, how business?s future landscape will look. George Huber?s new book, The Necessary Nature of Future Firms, describes this landscape clearly and credibly and makes explicit the organizational attributes and management practices firms must possess to be among the ranks of the ?future firms.? Advances in science and technology will continue to affect business environments, making them more complex, dynamic and competitive. Moreover, this complexity and dynamism will increase at increasing rates. As the book makes clear, successful firms will cope with or exploit these changes by increasing their capabilities for correctly interpreting threats and opportunities, making decisions, acquiring and managing knowledge, innovating, and changing while simultaneously dealing with the needs for efficiency, flexibility, and employee commitment. The Necessary Nature of Future Firms is written for managers, especially those managing change. Professionals in a wide variety of organizational roles will find it a particularly useful reference for its foresight and as an invaluable tool in winning approval for projects and initiatives. Academics in change management, information systems, organizational science, strategy, and human resources management can draw on the book as a supplementary text or as a source for lecture materials. References housed in endnotes rather than in the text contribute to the book?s readability and ease of use, as does the accessible writing style. But for all its accessibility and reader friendliness, The Necessary Nature of Future Firms is still firmly grounded in scholarship. Hundreds of authoritative works and systematic studies specifically inform this book, as do Huber?s own studies and his interviews with over 100 middle- and upper-level managers about changes in their organizations. To add meaning and interest, the book?s insights and conclusions are elaborated with real world examples.
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