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  • How Decisions Can Be Organized - and Why It Matters

    Michael Christensen, Thorbjørn Knudsen
    41-50
    2013-12-12
    ... 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

    Richard M. Burton, Børge Obel, Dorthe Døjbak Håkonsson
    37-45
    2015-12-21
    ... , 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

    Virpi Turkulainen, Mikko Ketokivi
    31-43
    2013-08-20
    ... that can be linked to organizational actions (March & Simon, 1958). (c) operationalizing integration ..."
  • The Evolution of Enterprise Organization Designs

    Jay R. Galbraith
    1-13
    2012-08-03
    ... 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

    Jacob Brix, Lois S. Peters
    29-43
    2015-04-30
    ... & 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

    Diego Stea, Kirsten Foss, Nicolai J. Foss
    3-17
    2015-12-04
    ... 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

    Børge Obel, Charles C. Snow
    58-73
    2014-08-07
    ... 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

    Xenophon Koufteros, Xiasong (David) Peng, Guanyi Lu, Richard Peters
    1-17
    2014-06-26
    ...  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

    Mark Nissen
    30-42
    2014-08-29
    ... : 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

    Eric S. Engler, Stephen L. Jones, Andrew H. Van de Ven
    3-15
    2013-12-12
    ... 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

    Jay R. Galbraith
    2-13
    2014-04-10
    ... , however, we can see some real substance underlying this phenomenon. Big data has been given legitimacy by ..."
  • Fit - The Key to Organizational Design

    Lex Donaldson, Greg Joffe
    38-45
    2014-12-30
    ... products under its own division manager . If there are cross-division opportunities, these can be targeted ..."
  • Big Data – Big Deal for Organization Design?

    Janne J. Korhonen
    31-36
    2014-04-10
    ... , 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?

    Prasahant Kale, Phanish Puranam
    15-30
    2013-08-20
    ... the exchange efficacy of ownership vs. contracts drawn from the make-or-buy decision can be ..."
  • Navigating New Legal Demands For Franchisor Accountability

    Carolyn Plump, Esq., David J. Ketchen
    43-47
    2014-08-01
    ... . 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

    Starling David Hunter
    24-37
    2015-08-28
    ... view of the firm (Markides & Williamson, 1996), decision theory (Huber & McDaniel, 1986), and ..."
  • How Can We Create Collaborative Design Knowledge in Politicized Contexts?

    Jone L. Pearce
    38-40
    2013-12-12
    ... 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

    Metin Sengul, Stefan Dimitriadis
    18-30
    2015-11-03
    ... all of their strategic decisions were coordinated by a central decision maker . Although this ..."
  • Fit Between Organization Design and Organizational Routines

    Constance E. Helfat, Samina Karim
    18-29
    2014-07-31
    ... , 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

    Jan Steinmetz, Chuck Bennett, Dorthe Døjbak Håkonsson
    7-11
    2012-05-31
    ... 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

    Peter Jack Gallo, Richard Burton
    37-50
    2012-12-14
    ... adaptation. Shocks can provoke firms to undertake dramatic and rapid changes as described by the change ..."
  • Organization Theory and the Changing Nature of Science

    Jonathon N. Cummings, Sara Kiesler
    1-16
    2014-11-12
    ... . 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?

    Julian Birkinshaw
    8-9
    2015-06-23
    ... , 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

    Moshe Yonatany
    54-58
    2013-08-20
    ... 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

    Amy Kates, Gregory Kesler
    38-47
    2015-07-28
    ... business can be made. Effective decision rights allow for true empowerment and speed by enabling managers ..."
  • Moving Design from Metaphor to Management Practice

    Jeanne Liedtka, Bidhan Parmar
    51-57
    2012-12-14
    ... 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

    Teppo Felin
    10-11
    2015-06-23
    ... 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

    Mokter Hossain, Ilkka Kauranen
    46-52
    2014-10-20
    ... drawback of modularity is that protecting intellectual property rights can be more difficult for the ..."
  • The Future of Organization Design

    Jay R. Galbraith
    3-6
    2012-05-31
    ... , 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

    Richard M. Burton
    42-44
    2013-04-18
    ... 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

    Georg von Krogh, Nina Geilinger
    18-19
    2015-06-23
    ... . 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?

    Nicolai J. Foss, Magdalena Dobrajska
    12-15
    2015-06-23
    ... 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

    André A. de Waal, Béatrice I.J.M. van der Heijden
    1-11
    2015-04-14
    ... a way that they provide constructive information and feedback so that organization members can  ..."
  • Using Simulation to Study, Design and Invent Organizations

    Raymond Elliot Levitt
    58-63
    2012-12-14
    ...  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

    David S. Alberts
    14-17
    2012-05-31
    ... 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

    Steven Miller
    26-30
    2014-04-10
    ... , and consequently anyone can call himself or herself a data scientist. Universities and industry need ..."
  • Emerging Assumptions About Organization Design, Knowledge And Action

    Alan Meyer
    16-22
    2013-12-12
    ...  decision or to take new actions. Often, people use them to justify either a decision already reached or ..."
  • Open Innovation and Organization Design

    Michael Tushman, Karim R. Lakhani, Hila Lifshitz-Assaf
    24-27
    2012-05-31
    ... 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

    Tor Bøe-Lillegraven
    27-37
    2014-12-19
    ... 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

    Harry S. Hertz
    44-49
    2015-03-26
    ... of purpose, so they can be responsible decision -makers for the organization. Leaders place an ..."
  • Towards Alliance Performance Management in Service Logistics

    Bianca Keers, Paul C. van Fenema
    12-28
    2015-04-30
    ... 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

    G. Christopher Crawford
    75-81
    2012-08-03
    ... 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

    Ben Nanfeng Luo, Lex Donaldsen
    2-10
    2013-04-18
    ... 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

    David J. Ketchen, Jr., T. Russell Crook, James G. Combs, J. David Patterson
    64-72
    2012-12-14
    ... “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

    Raymond E. Levitt
    14-41
    2012-08-03
    ... 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

    John Joseph
    48
    2015-11-09
    ... organization are reduced and aligned so as to provide better decision making and reduce costs. As Nicol ..."
  • Introduction

    Richard M. Burton, Dolly Mastrangelo, Fabrizio Salvador
    1
    2014-04-10
    ... . He also discusses how seizing the opportunity of big data implies increasing the speed of decision  ..."
  • Interview with Professor George Huber

    Dorthe Døjbak Håkonsson
    46-47
    2015-11-05
    ... 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

    Michael Beer
    27-33
    2013-04-18
    ... 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?

    Luca Giustiniano, Chiara D'Alise
    48-53
    2015-07-07
    ... 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

    Robert L. Grossman, Kevin P. Siegel
    20-25
    2014-04-10
    ... 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"

    Carliss Y. Baldwin
    5-7
    2015-06-23
    ... (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

    Carliss Y. Baldwin
    20-23
    2012-05-31
    ... 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

    Børge Obel, Charles C. Snow
    1
    2013-04-18
    ... 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

    Keren Caspin-Wagner, Arie Y. Lewin, Silvia Massini, Carine Peeters
    34-41
    2013-04-18
    ... mergers and acquisitions is created only if firms’ resources can be uniquely and strategically combined ..."
  • Introduction

    Amy Kates, Charles C. Snow, Børge Obel
    1-2
    2013-12-12
    ... consultants. Internal professionals want proven methodologies that can be applied consistently across the ..."
  • The Centrality of Organization Design

    Raymond E. Miles
    12-13
    2012-05-31
    ... 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

    Phanish Puranam
    18-19
    2012-05-31
    ... globally distributed intellectual resources. Can a normatively oriented field such as organization ..."
  • Designing Firms to Fit the Future

    Raymond E. Miles, Laurent Scaringella
    69-74
    2012-08-03
    ... . This article discusses the design of a “futures group” which can help to synchronize a firm’s ..."
  • It works – I know it works

    Lars Kolind
    16-17
    2015-06-23
    ... advantages can be much bigger: Employees are more motivated and dedicated to what they do. There are no ..."
  • Closing Thoughts & Open Questions

    Phanish Puranam, Dorthe Døjbak Håkonsson
    22-23
    2015-06-23
    ... from micro-management can be powerful, but they remain cautious about how often this combination is ..."
  • Editorial

    Børge Obel, Charles C. Snow
    1-2
    2012-05-31
    ... scholars and managers can and should work together to design (or redesign) organizations to be much more ..."
  • Valve's Way

    Phanish Puranam, Dorthe Døjbak Håkonsson
    2-4
    2015-06-23
    ... What can we learn from outliers? While statisticians rightly warn us against their non ..."
  • Valve Corporation: Composing Internal Markets

    Todd R. Zenger
    20-21
    2015-07-06
    ... 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

    Martin Berner, Enrico Graupner, Alexander Maedche
    14-19
    2014-04-10
    ...  can be empowered while simultaneously being controlled. We derive propositions that show how to best ..."
  • Introduction

    Børge Obel, Charles Snow
    1
    2015-06-23
    ... 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

    Carolyn M. Plump, David J. Ketchen, Jr.
    51-55
    2013-12-12
    ... 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

    Liisa Välikangas, Georges Romme
    44-53
    2013-08-20
    ... 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

    Bernhard Schroeder, Alex DeNoble
    48-57
    2014-05-19
    ... 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

    Erik De Waard, Henk W Volberda, Joseph Soeters
    1-14
    2013-08-20
    ... system decomposition to responsiveness. A high degree of system granularity can lead to a predominantly ..."
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