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Organizational Theory, Design, and Change - Couverture rigide

Jones, Gareth R.

 
9780136087311: Organizational Theory, Design, and Change
Couverture rigide
ISBN 10 : 0136087310 ISBN 13 : 9780136087311
Editeur : Pearson, 2009

Synopsis

For undergraduate and graduate courses in Organization Theory, Organizational Design, and Organizational Change/Development.

Business is changing at break-neck speed, so managers must be increasingly active in reorganizing their firms to gain a competitive edge.

Organizational Theory, Design, and Change continues to provide students with the most up-to-date and contemporary treatment of the way managers attempt to increase organizational effectiveness.  By making organizational change the centerpiece in a discussion of organizational theory and design, this text stands apart from other books on the market.

The sixth edition has been updated to reflect the most recent trends in real-world managing techniques. Examples have been updated to provide vivid illustrations of such techniques in action.

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Quatrième de couverture

Features include:

  • An integrated flow between chapters that allows students to clearly see how topics relate to each other from the start.
  • An in-depth look at organizational culture from the origins of culture to its relationship with organizational effectiveness.
  • Coverage of ethics as an explicit theme.
  • Detailed coverage of the stakeholder approach to organizations and the implications of this approach for organizational effectiveness.
  • Explanations of the most recent developments in organizational structure such as the product team structure, outsourcing, and network organizations.
  • Discussion of recent literature on interorganizational linkage mechanisms, and an account of the role of resource dependence theory and transaction cost theory in explaining why organizations choose different types of linkage mechanisms.
  • An integrated account of the strategy-structure relationship.
  • Comprehensive coverage of international strategy and structure and global organizational design.
  • An analysis of new technological developments, including the Internet, integrated with traditional concepts already used in organizational theory. See how technical complexity, task nonroutinism, and task interdependence affect organizational design.
  • A detailed discussion of both population ecology theory and institutional theory.

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Présentation de l'éditeur

For undergraduate and graduate courses in Organization Theory, Organizational Design, and Organizational Change/Development.

Business is changing at break-neck speed, so managers must be increasingly active in reorganizing their firms to gain a competitive edge.

Organizational Theory, Design, and Change continues to provide students with the most up-to-date and contemporary treatment of the way managers attempt to increase organizational effectiveness.  By making organizational change the centerpiece in a discussion of organizational theory and design, this text stands apart from other books on the market.

The sixth edition has been updated to reflect the most recent trends in real-world managing techniques. Examples have been updated to provide vivid illustrations of such techniques in action.

Les informations fournies dans la section « A propos du livre » peuvent faire référence à une autre édition de ce titre.

Éditeur
Pearson
Date d'édition
2009
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
0136087310
ISBN 13 
9780136087311
Reliure
Relié
Numéro d'édition
6
Nombre de pages
544
Coordonnées du fabricant
non disponible
Personne responsable
Riccardo Bacigalupo
riccardo.bacigalupo@sanoma.it

Sanoma Italia Via Arconati, 1 �
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