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How Decisions Can Be Organized - and Why It Matters
... How Decisions Can Be Organized - and Why It Matters better understand how decision processes can be improved. These advances allow managers to address a decision processes can be improved. These advances allow managers to address a number of critical questions ..." -
How to get the Matrix Organization to Work
... , decision -making can be difficult to realize – particularly in a timely fashion – resulting in opportunity ) Alignment among contingencies: A matrix can only be successful if key contingencies are aligned with the ..." -
The Contingent Value of Organizational Integration
... that can be linked to organizational actions (March & Simon, 1958). (c) operationalizing integration ..." -
The Evolution of Enterprise Organization Designs
... a bright future. But while growth is desirable, it is also limiting. A firm can only grow so much ..." -
Exploring an Innovation Project as a Source of Change in Organization Design
... & Percival, 2013; Tushman et al., 2010), and there is an extensive literature on how managers can organize ..." -
A Neglected Role for Organizational Design: Supporting the Credibility of Delegation in Organizations
... employees communicate their information or decision criteria to a manager who decides on actions or delegated decision rights has negative motivational consequences that are costly in knowledge-intensive ..." -
Jay R. Galbraith Memorial Project
... and practice of organizational design. his information-processing view was real to the manager who ..." -
The Impact of Organizational Structure on Internal and External Integration: An empirical, cross-regional assessment
... decision I make has to have my boss’s approval. 0.85 16.03 There can be little action taken here until a ..." -
Organization Design for Dynamic Fit: A Review and Projection
... : design orientation, design tension, designer/ manager roles, and measurement and validation. Implications analysis: design orientation, design tension, designer/ manager roles, and measurement and validation ..." -
Organizing Healthcare For Changing Markets: The Case of Ascension Health
... ambiguous to be fully planned in advance , the focus of the case is on the processes of learning while -moving environment is too complex and ambiguous to be fully planned in advance , the focus of the case is ..." -
Organizational Design Challenges Resulting From Big Data
... , however, we can see some real substance underlying this phenomenon. Big data has been given legitimacy by ..." -
Fit - The Key to Organizational Design
... products under its own division manager . If there are cross-division opportunities, these can be targeted ..." -
Big Data – Big Deal for Organization Design?
... , requisite organization Big data – large sets of data that can be captured, communicated, aggregated, stored ..." -
The Design Of Equity Ownership Structure In Inter-Firm Relationships: Do Managers Choose According To Theory?
... the exchange efficacy of ownership vs. contracts drawn from the make-or-buy decision can be ..." -
Navigating New Legal Demands For Franchisor Accountability
... . The goal of this Point of View article is to explain how organizations can avoid problems associated is to explain how organizations can avoid problems associated with increased accountability and even ..." -
Combining Theoretical Perspectives on the Organizational Structure-Performance Relationship
... view of the firm (Markides & Williamson, 1996), decision theory (Huber & McDaniel, 1986), and ..." -
How Can We Create Collaborative Design Knowledge in Politicized Contexts?
... How Can We Create Collaborative Design Knowledge in Politicized Contexts? Organizational Design Community HOw Can we Create COllabOratIve DesIgn KnOwleDge In POlItICIzeD COntexts ..." -
Multimarket Competition
... all of their strategic decisions were coordinated by a central decision maker . Although this ..." -
Fit Between Organization Design and Organizational Routines
... , firms can utilize a modular organizational structure. this implies that decision making can be pushed ..." -
A Practitioner’s View of the Future of Organization Design: Future Trends and Implications for Royal Dutch Shell
... responsible manner. my statement will present some of the future trends and possible implications which can possible implications which can be seen for organization design within Royal Dutch Shell (Shell) and which ..." -
Sequencing Organizational Change For Post-Shock Adaptation: A Simulation Model
... adaptation. Shocks can provoke firms to undertake dramatic and rapid changes as described by the change ..." -
Organization Theory and the Changing Nature of Science
... . We describe how applying organization theory to science can enhance our knowledge of research organization theory to science can enhance our knowledge of research organizations and raise questions for ..." -
What Lessons Should We Learn From Valve’s Innovative Management Model?
... , Valve is not alone in pushing a “ manager free” model. Zappos (owned by Amazon) is currently alone in pushing a “ manager free” model. Zappos (owned by Amazon) is currently experimenting with a ..." -
A Model of the Platform-Ecosystem Organizational Form
... substitution can be explained using a brief example. When a manager gives directions to an employee, the ..." -
Activating Global Operating Models: The bridge from organization design to performance
... business can be made. Effective decision rights allow for true empowerment and speed by enabling managers ..." -
Moving Design from Metaphor to Management Practice
... of “reflection in action” addresses this gap by describing how managers can practice designing by action” addresses this gap by describing how managers can practice designing by generating problem frames ..." -
Valve Corporation: Strategy Tipping Points and Thresholds
... completely. Beyond individual biases, a host of social biases can also detrimentally impact decision -making organizational design can impact individual and collective behavior, strategy and performance. ..." -
Competition-Based Innovation: The Case of the X Prize Foundation
... drawback of modularity is that protecting intellectual property rights can be more difficult for the ..." -
The Future of Organization Design
... , 2011). This revolution is based on new technologies like three-dimensional printers that can fabricate ..." -
The Future of Organization Design: An Interpretative Synthesis in Three Themes
... stable and predictable to how they can become more agile. Keywords: Organization design; new change, requiring a shift in focus from how organizations become stable and predictable to how they can ..." -
Valve’s Organization: Opportunities and open questions
... . Moreover, it appears that Valve has uncovered how developers’ self-selection of projects and tasks can be Valve has uncovered how developers’ self-selection of projects and tasks can be a powerful motivator to ..." -
Valve's Way: Vayward, Visionary, or Voguish?
... radical one, of a spate of companies that have adopted flat hierarchies with widely distributed decision ..." -
The Role of Performance Management in Creating and Maintaining a High-Performance Organization
... a way that they provide constructive information and feedback so that organization members can ..." -
Using Simulation to Study, Design and Invent Organizations
... can be used to explore the efficacy of hypothetical organizational configurations that can address validating extant organization theory and developing new theory; and (c) organizational test benches that can ..." -
Rethinking Organizational Design for Complex Endeavors
... future of Organizational Design (OD) will be shaped by the extent to which the field can address the The future of Organizational Design (OD) will be shaped by the extent to which the field can ..." -
Collaborative Approaches Needed to Close the Big Data Skills Gap
... , and consequently anyone can call himself or herself a data scientist. Universities and industry need ..." -
Emerging Assumptions About Organization Design, Knowledge And Action
... decision or to take new actions. Often, people use them to justify either a decision already reached or ..." -
Open Innovation and Organization Design
... management. similarly, building on March and simon’s (1958) concept of organizations as decision making . Similarly, building on March and Simon's (1958) concept of organizations as decision making systems ..." -
Untangling the Ambidexterity Dilemma through Big Data Analytics
... exploit value chains. The article concludes with a discussion of how the explore/exploit framework can be chains. The article concludes with a discussion of how the explore/exploit framework can be ..." -
The Challenge of Being Outstanding: A Look Back and Ahead After 25 Years of Guiding Business Excellence
... of purpose, so they can be responsible decision -makers for the organization. Leaders place an ..." -
Towards Alliance Performance Management in Service Logistics
... of its comprehensive multi-stakeholder orientation, a success map can be used by alliance managers -stakeholder orientation, a success map can be used by alliance managers to understand management’s ..." -
Disobeying Power Laws: Perils for Theory and Method
... relationships, organization design scholars can develop theories that more closely depict empirical reality and relationships, organization design scholars can develop theories that more closely depict empirical reality and ..." -
Misfits in Organization Design: Information Processing as a Compensatory Mechanism
... that an “over-fitting” organization structure can compensate for an “under-fitting” structure, thereby can compensate for an “under-fitting” structure, thereby reducing the total misfit. In organizations ..." -
Improving Supply Chain Performance Through Organizational Design: Insights from key suppliers to the United States Air Force
... “identify and then act on steps [DoD] can take to obtain two to three percent net annual growth in ..." -
The Virtual Design Team: Designing Project Organizations as Engineers Design Bridges
... This paper reports on a 20-year program of research intended to advance the theory and practice of ..." -
Resume of interview with Ron Nicol, Boston Consulting Group
... organization are reduced and aligned so as to provide better decision making and reduce costs. As Nicol ..." -
Introduction
... . He also discusses how seizing the opportunity of big data implies increasing the speed of decision ..." -
Interview with Professor George Huber
... Design Community. He is a Fellow of the Academy of Management and of the Decision Sciences Institute and ..." -
The Strategic Fitness Process: A Collaborative Action Research Method for Developing and Understanding Organizational Prototypes and Dynamic Capabilities
... truth), can conduct a valid diagnosis, and can develop a valid plan to change the structure, processes ..." -
Networks, Clusters, and Small Worlds: Are they related?
... sometimes-spontaneous emergence of these organizational forms, the extent to which they can be designed is emergence of these organizational forms, the extent to which they can be designed is not always clear. This ..." -
Organizational Models for Big Data and Analytics
... processes fit within the organization, and we discuss how an appropriate analytics governance structure can ..." -
In the Shadow of the Crowd: A comment on "Valve’s Way"
... (1958), offers a threefold classification of the ways authority can be exercised in organizations: (1 Organizations (1958), offers a threefold classification of the ways authority can be exercised in organizations ..." -
Organization Design for Business Ecosystems
... corporation has long been the central focus of the field of organization design. Such firms can be likened to firms can be likened to nation-states: they have boundaries that circumscribe citizen-employees, and ..." -
Editorial
... on the experience of a single organization, and this versatile format can be used to introduce a new ..." -
The Underexplored Role of Managing Interdependencies Fit in Organization Design and Performance
... mergers and acquisitions is created only if firms’ resources can be uniquely and strategically combined ..." -
Introduction
... consultants. Internal professionals want proven methodologies that can be applied consistently across the ..." -
The Centrality of Organization Design
... to require that it be arranged so that various kinds of teams can interact across organizational directions, which is likely to require that it be arranged so that various kinds of teams can interact across ..." -
A Future for the Science of Organization Design
... globally distributed intellectual resources. Can a normatively oriented field such as organization ..." -
Designing Firms to Fit the Future
... . This article discusses the design of a “futures group” which can help to synchronize a firm’s ..." -
It works – I know it works
... advantages can be much bigger: Employees are more motivated and dedicated to what they do. There are no ..." -
Closing Thoughts & Open Questions
... from micro-management can be powerful, but they remain cautious about how often this combination is ..." -
Editorial
... scholars and managers can and should work together to design (or redesign) organizations to be much more ..." -
Valve's Way
... What can we learn from outliers? While statisticians rightly warn us against their non ..." -
Valve Corporation: Composing Internal Markets
... internally as best it can . But, again, why not just crowdsource or contract for the work? The answer seems ..." -
The Information Panopticon in the Big Data Era
... can be empowered while simultaneously being controlled. We derive propositions that show how to best ..." -
Introduction
... organizational forms can do as well as their drawbacks. Each edition of Organization Zoo will be built on a organizations, in order to learn more about what particular organizational forms can do as well as their ..." -
Navigating The Possible Legal Pitfalls Of Virtual Teams
... violate labor and personnel laws. The results can be costly, including the loss of key personnel, damage ..." -
How to Design for Strategic Resilience: A Case Study in Retailing
... Few firms can be said to be truly resilient by sustaining high performance for a long time. We draw ..." -
How To Design A Triple Bottom Line Organization: A Start-Up Case Study
... and profit, it can be quite challenging to design a triple bottom line organization (people/planet ..." -
Drivers of Organizational Responsiveness: Experiences of a Military Crisis Response Organization
... system decomposition to responsiveness. A high degree of system granularity can lead to a predominantly ..."
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