The Modern Firm: Organizational Design for Performance and Growth (Clarendon Lectures in Management Studies) (English Edition)

Roberts, John:

ISBN 10: 0198293763 / ISBN 13: 9780198293767

Published by Oxford University Press, 2004

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• Title: The Modern Firm: Organizational Design for Performance and Growth (Clarendon Lectures in Management Studies) (English Edition)
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Publication Date: 2004
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0198293763
• ISBN 13: 9780198293767
• Binding: Karton Karton
• Edition: 1. Auflage.
• Condition: Sehr gut
• Dust Jacket Condition: Dust Jacket Included
• Weight: 600 grams
• Seller catalogs:
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Synopsis

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 the 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.

About the Author

John Roberts holds the John H. and Irene S. Scully Professorship in Economics, Strategic Management and International Business in the Graduate School of Business at Stanford University. He has published over seventy scholarly articles in academic journals in a variety of areas in economic theory and game theory and their application to problems in industrial competition and management. He has also written numerous case studies of businesses and co-authored the seminal textbook on the economics and management of firms (The Economics, Organization and Management, Prentice Hall 1992).