Description
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.