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The Modern Firm - Organizational Design for Performance and Growth (Hardcover, New)
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The Modern Firm - Organizational Design for Performance and Growth (Hardcover, New)
Series: Clarendon Lectures in Management Studies
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Business firms around the world are experimenting with new
organizational designs, changing their formal architectures, their
routines and processes, and their corporate cultures as they seek
to improve their current performance and their growth prospects. In
the process they are changing the scope of their business
operations, redrawing their organization charts, redefining the
allocation of decision-making authority and responsibility,
revamping the mechanisms for motivating and rewarding people,
reconsidering which activities to conduct in-house and which to
out-source, redesigning their information systems, and seeking to
alter the shared beliefs, values and norms that their people hold.
In this book, John Roberts argues that there are predictable,
necessary relationships among these changes that will improve
performance and growth. The organizations that are successful will
establish patterns of fit among the elements of their
organizational designs, their competitive strategies and the
external environment in which they operate and will go about this
in a holistic manner. The Modern Firm develops powerful conceptual
frameworks for analyzing the interrelations between organizational
design features, competitive strategy and the business environment.
Written in a non-technical language, the book is nevertheless based
on rigorous modeling and draws on numerous examples from eighteenth
century fur trading companies to such modern firms such as BP and
Nokia. Finally the book explores why these developments are
happening now, pointing to the increase in global competition and
changes in technology. Written by one of the world's leading
economists and experts on business strategy and organization, The
Modern Firm provides new insights into the changes going on in
business today and will be of interest to academics, students and
managers alike. The Modern Firm was the Economist Best Business
Book of the Year 2004.
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