Handbook of Organizational Design: 1: Adapting Organizations to their Environments - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0198272413 ISBN 13: 9780198272410

Publisher: OUP Oxford, 1981

Synopsis

This comprehensive reference work summarizes and reinterprets research, and suggests applications got the design of organizations. Scholars and professionals, from the United States, Europe, and other countries, present the contributions to organization theory of management science, political science, economics, sociology, systems engineering, psychology, history, and anthropology. The chapters draw examples from a large number of diverse industries and governmental activities, and they discuss design alternatives which should prove valuable for planning, redesign, and the continuing operations of organizations.

Volume 1 analyzes the effects of environments on organizations, and discusses the adaptive capabilities of organizations such as planning, forecasting, and innovation. Contributors examine the effects of change, particularly changes in technologies and in legal and political systems.

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From the Back Cover

This handbook does not pretend to be a dispassionate portrayal of objective facts. Its explicit goal is to influence how its readers perceive organizations, what questions they ask, and what answers they consider as alternatives.

Edition details

• Publisher: OUP Oxford
• Publication date: 1981
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0198272413
• ISBN 13: 9780198272410
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 582
• Editor: Nystrom Paul C., Starbuck William H.