Handbook of Organizational Design 1: Adapting Organizations to their Environments

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.

1 - How Organizations Learn and Unlearn
2 - Development of Organizations Over Time
3 - Entrepreneurship and Organization
4 - Managerial Innovation
5 - Designs for Optimal Information Filters
6 - Forecasting an Organization's Futures
7 - Experimenting with Organizational Behavior
8 - Organizational Experiments and Social Innovations
9 - Laws, Organizations, and the Judiciary
10 - How Norms Affect Behaviors in and of Corporations
11 - How Migration and Regional Development Affect Organizations
12 - Planning Multinational Operations
13 - Technology and Organizational Economics
14 - Organizational Roles
15 - Interactions Between Organizations and Societal Stratification
16 - Adaption Through Evolving Interdependence
17 - Organization-Sets, Action-Sets, and Networks: Making the Most of Simplicity
18 - Properties of Competing Organizations
19 - Strategically Interdependent Organizations
20 - Intergovernmental Relations
21 - Interorganizational Agreements
22 - Cooperation Between Government and Business
23 - Designing Precarious Partnerships