The Modern Firm

Organizational Design for Performance and Growth

John Roberts

318 pages, parution le 22/04/2004

Ajouter à une liste

Indisponible

Résumé

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 outsource, 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 Modem Firm develops powerful conceptual frameworks for analyzing the interrelations between organizational design features, competitive strategy, and the business environment. Written in a nontechnical language, the book is nevertheless based on rigorous modeling and draws on numerous examples, from the eighteenth century fur trading companies to 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 Modem Firm provides new insights into the changes going on in business today and will be of interest to academics, students, and managers alike.

L'auteur - John Roberts

John Roberts enseigne à la Graduate School of Business de l'université de Stanford. Ses travaux présentent une approche concrète et innovante des nouveaux modes d'organisation des entreprises dans le contexte concurrentiel contemporain.

Autres livres de John Roberts

Organisation de l'entreprise moderne, performance et croissance

Découvrir tous les livres de John Roberts

Sommaire

Strategy and Organization
Key Concepts for Organization Design
The Nature and Purpose of the Firm
Motivation in the Modern Firm
Organizing for Performance
Organizing for Growth and Innovation
Creating the Modern Firm: Management and Leadership Challenges

Voir tout

Replier

Caractéristiques techniques

	PAPIER
Éditeur(s)	Oxford University Press
Auteur(s)	John Roberts
Parution	22/04/2004
Nb. de pages	318
Format	14,5 x 22
Couverture	Relié
Poids	530g
Intérieur	Noir et Blanc
EAN13	9780198293767
ISBN13	978-0-19-829376-7