The modern firm
organizational design performance and growth
- ISBN: 9780198293767
- Fecha de la edición: 2004
- Lugar de la edición: Oxford. None
- Encuadernación: Cartoné
- Medidas: 23 cm
- Nº Pág.: 318
- Idiomas: Inglés
The Modern Firm develops powerful conceptual frameworks for analyzing the interrelations between organizational design features, competitive strategy and the business environment. Written in a non-technical language, the book is nevertheless based on rigorous modeling and draws on numerous examples from the eighteenth century fur trading companies to such modern firms such as BP and Nokia. Written by one of the world's leading economists and experts on business strategy and organization, The Modern Firm provides new insights into the changes going on in business today and will be of interest to academics, students and managers alike. INDICE Preface 1 Strategy and Organization 2 Key Concepts for Organizational Design 3 The Nature and Purpose of the Firm 4 Motivation in the Modern Firm 5 Organizing for Performance 6 Organizing for Growth and Innovation 7 Creating the Modern Firm: Management and Leadership Challenges
