This comprehensive and up-to-date book makes important organization theories accessible and interesting to readers—providing them with direct and clear managerial implications. Coverage of recent theoretical advances explains developments in areas such as product team structure, outsourcing, restructuring and downsizing, reengineering, and the boundary-less organization. Other chapter topics include basic challenges of organizational design; managing culture and ethics; organizational strategy and structure; managing the international environment; managing the new technological environment; decision making and organizational learning; managing innovation and change; and organizational conflict, power, and politics. An ongoing case study of Amazon.com discusses the effects of the Internet on organizational theory and design for firm structure and strategy throughout the book—while boxed insights cover many Internet and information technology companies including Oracle, E*Trade, EBay and Dell Computer. In addition, analyses of new technological developments integrate the traditional concepts used in organizational theory. For practicing managers and individuals trying to understand what the abstract concepts of organizational theory mean in practice and in the workplace.
* An integrated flow between chapters — allows students to clearly see how topics relate to each other from the start.
* An in-depth look at organizational culture from the origins of culture to its relationship with organizational effectiveness.
* Detailed coverage of the stakeholder approach to organizations and the implications of this approach for organizational effectiveness.
* Explanations of the most recent developments in organizational structure such as the product team structure, outsourcing, and the network organizations.
* Discussion of recent literature on inter-organizational linkage mechanisms, including the role of resource dependence theory and transaction cost theory in explaining why organizations choose different types of linkage mechanisms.
* An integrated account of the strategy-structure relationship.
* Comprehensive coverage of international strategy and structure and global organizational design.
* An analysis of new technological developments, including the Internet, integrated with traditional concepts already used in organizational theory. See how technical complexity, task non-routinism, and task interdependence affect organizational design.
* A detailed discussion of both population ecology theory and institutional theory.
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