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 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.
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ISBN
9780191622465
Publisert
2020
Utgiver
Vendor
OUP Oxford
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Digital bok
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