Choice of the Organization Structure: A Framework for Quantitative Analysis of Industrial Centralization (Classic Reprint) - Hardcover

Peter Hammann

9780483969711: Choice of the Organization Structure: A Framework for Quantitative Analysis of Industrial Centralization (Classic Reprint)

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ISBN 10: 0483969710 ISBN 13: 9780483969711

Publisher: Forgotten Books, 2018

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A practical framework for evaluating how firms organize decision making .

This book offers a quantitative approach to choosing how centralized or decentralized a company should be, with clear models you can study and adapt.

It presents three distinct organizational alternatives and shows how to compare them using a system-wide view. The discussion focuses on information flow, motivation, and initiative, and it explains how to set up and solve related optimization problems. Realistic steps are outlined for budgeting, experimentation, and estimating how sub-units respond to decentralization.

Three formal models of central, functionally decentralized, and divisionally decentralized structures
A framework for measuring information, motivation, and initiative within a company
Practical guidance on building and testing return functions and budgets
Strategies for evaluating organizational change and planning for the aftermath

Ideal for readers of organizational theory and management science who want a clear, quantitative path to restructuring decisions.

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