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Building the flexible firm : how to remain competitive /

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How do managers reconcile the conflicting forces of change and stability? How do they promote order and control, while having to learn to innovate and respond? This book shows how for many firms flexibility has become the new strategic challenge.

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Volberda, Henk Wijtze, 1964-
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Oxford [England] ; New York : Oxford University Press, 1998.
Subjects:
Organizational change.
Strategic planning.
Competition.
Organizational Innovation
Economic Competition
Changement organisationnel.
Planification stratégique.
Compétitivité (Économie)
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS > Structural Adjustment.
Competition
Organizational change
Strategic planning
Electronic books.
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • 1. Introduction
  • 2. A Revision of Management and Organization
  • 3. Flexibility, The Hallmark of Postmodern Organization
  • 4. Grasping The Paradox of Flexibility: A Multidimensional Concept
  • 5. The Managerial Task: Creating Flexible Capabilities
  • 6. The Organization Design Task: Reducing Organizational Barriers
  • 7. Resolving the Paradox: Flexibility under Various Levels of Competition
  • 8. Towards The Flexible Form
  • 9. How to Improve the Firm's Flexibility: Tools and Techniques
  • 10. Discovering Flexible Corporations of The Future: Managerial and Theoretical Implications
  • App. I. Standardized Questionnaires of the FAR Method
  • App. II. Diagnostic Results of the Multi-case Longitudinal Study.