New Approaches to Organization Design Theory and Practice of Adaptive Enterprises

Organization design is a key feature of management theory and practice. It addresses the challenges of constructing and maintaining effective organizations. Essential to organizational design is the assumption that it can improve organizations.

Faced with the ever-accelerating pace of technological change and the restructuring of markets, many firms have been questioning their own organization. This book is the third to emerge from a series of workshops on organization design, featuring new empirical research and theoretical insights. The chapters are organized around four central themes: 1) Towards New Organizational Forms, 2) Dynamics of Adaptation and Change, 3) Theoretical and Practical issues, 4) Fit and Performance. Collectively, the chapters reflect the state of the art of OD as well as provide a further step towards the evolution of this important field of research.

Toward New Organizational Forms.- Blade.Org: A Collaborative Community of Firms.- Network-Level Task and the Design of Whole Networks: Is There a Relationship?.- Dynamics of Adaptation and Change.- Organizational Trade-Offs and the Dynamics of Adaptation in Permeable Structures.- Unpacking Dynamic Capability: A Design Perspective.- Predicting Organizational Reconfiguration.- Embedding Virtuality into Organization Design Theory: Virtuality and Its Information Processing Consequences.- Fit and Performance.- Learning-Before-Doing and Learning-in-Action: Bridging the Gap Between Innovation Adoption, Implementation, and Performance.- Underfits Versus Overfits in the Contingency Theory of Organizational Design: Asymmetric Effects of Misfits on Performance.