Handbook of Organizational Design - 1: Adapting Organizations to their Environments (Hardcover)

This comprehensive reference work summarizes and reinterprets research, and suggests applications got the design of organizations. Scholars and professionals, from the United States, Europe, and other countries, present the contributions to organization theory of management science, political science, economics, sociology, systems engineering, psychology, history, and anthropology. The chapters draw examples from a large number of diverse industries and governmental activities, and they discuss design alternatives which should prove valuable for planning, redesign, and the continuing operations of organizations. Volume 1 analyzes the effects of environments on organizations, and discusses the adaptive capabilities of organizations such as planning, forecasting, and innovation. Contributors examine the effects of change, particularly changes in technologies and in legal and political systems.

General

Imprint:	Oxford UniversityPress
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Release date:	September 1981
Editors:	Paul C. Nystrom (Professor of Business Administration) • William H. Starbuck (Helfaer Professor of Business Administration, both in School of Business Administration)
Dimensions:	240 x 194 x 38mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	582
ISBN-13:	978-0-19-827241-0
Categories:	Books > Social sciences > Psychology > Social, group or collective psychology
LSN:	0-19-827241-3
Barcode:	9780198272410

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