Today's organizations face rapid change, digital disruption, and rising demands for sustainability and resilience. This fifth edition text equips executives, students, and educators with a proven framework for designing effective organizations in complex environments. Built on decades of research, the multi-contingency model provides a step-by-step guide from diagnosis to design and implementation-now expanded to include knowledge interdependence, AI integration, sustainable development, and organizational resilience. Rich with real-world cases from LEGO, Microsoft, Haier, and Blackberry, the book blends theory with practice and offers clear visuals, intuitive 2x2 models, and tools to support hands-on learning and application. It helps readers understand who should do what, talk to whom, and-crucially-know what, in today's increasingly dynamic settings. Whether used in executive education or as a core text in MBA and business school courses, this updated edition is a comprehensive, accessible, and globally trusted guide to modern organizational design.
Today's organizations face rapid change, digital disruption, and rising demands for sustainability and resilience. This fifth edition text equips executives, students, and educators with a proven framework for designing effective organizations in complex environments. Built on decades of research, the multi-contingency model provides a step-by-step guide from diagnosis to design and implementation-now expanded to include knowledge interdependence, AI integration, sustainable development, and organizational resilience. Rich with real-world cases from LEGO, Microsoft, Haier, and Blackberry, the book blends theory with practice and offers clear visuals, intuitive 2x2 models, and tools to support hands-on learning and application. It helps readers understand who should do what, talk to whom, and-crucially-know what, in today's increasingly dynamic settings. Whether used in executive education or as a core text in MBA and business school courses, this updated edition is a comprehensive, accessible, and globally trusted guide to modern organizational design.
Über den Autor
Richard M. Burton is Professor Emeritus at Duke University. In addition, he has an Honorary Doctorate from Aarhus University. He has served as associate editor of Organization Science, Strategic Management Journal, and Journal of Organization Design. He has written numerous books and articles on organization design and strategy. He is a co-author of Organizational Design: A Step-By-Step Approach (2020).
Inhaltsverzeichnis
Part I. Getting Started: 1. The Multi-Contingency Model; 2. Scope and Goals of the Organization; Part II. Strategic Positioning: 3. Strategy; 4. Environment; Part III. The Structure: 5. Traditional Configurations of the Firm; 6. New Ways of Organizing; Part IV. Agents, Workflow and Leadership Dynamics: 7. Work, Task Design and Agents; 8. Leadership and Organizational Climate; Part V. Coordination, Control, and Incentives: 9. Coordination and Control; 10. Incentives; Part VI. Getting the Architecture Right: 11. Designing the Structure and Coordination; 12. Designing the Change Process; Part VII. Implementing the Architecture: 13. Implementing the Change: Who Should Do What When?; 14. Designing for the Future.
