The Modern Firm
Organizational Design for Performance and Growth
$65.39
- Paperback
336 pages
- Release Date
5 September 2007
Summary
Business firms around the world are experimenting with new organizational designs, changing their formal architectures, their routines and processes, and their corporate cultures as they seek to improve their current performance and their growth prospects. In the process they are changing the scope of their business operations, redrawing their organization charts, redefining the allocation of decision-making authority and responsibility, revamping the mechanisms for motivating and rewarding p…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780198293750 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0198293755 |
| Author: | John Roberts |
| Publisher: | Oxford University Press |
| Imprint: | Oxford University Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 336 |
| Release Date: | 5 September 2007 |
| Weight: | 425g |
| Dimensions: | 26mm x 136mm x 214mm |
| Series: | Clarendon Lectures in Management Studies |
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Critics Review
I am aware of no book that does a better job of integrating rigorous economic reasoning with a rich understanding of how firms operate. Economists, sociologists, organization and strategy scholars, as well as practicing managers, can all learn from the insights on strategy and organization contained in this very fine book.'Joel Podolny, Dean of Yale School of ManagementThis book shows how recent ideas from economics can help us understand and improve the interplay between a firm’s strategy and organization. It is a book for people looking for a deeper understanding of the modern firm - and enjoying the experience. As one of the world’s foremost experts on economics and management, Roberts writes in an engaging style that makes the new ideas readily accessible to a wider business audience.‘Bengt Holmström, Paul A. Samuelson Professor of Economics, MITThere are plenty of books on management and leadership that explain what leading firms do. This one explains why. The penetrating insights in The Modern Firm can profitably be applied to a wide variety of strategy and organization problems. Roberts, an economist of the first rank, offers us a practical, readable discussion, without mathematical notation. The Modern Firm should be required reading for corporate leaders and their advisers.'Jonathan Day, Partner, McKinsey & Company…it is interesting, which isn’t something you can say about many business books.‘The Times`…best business book of the year…deserves to be a classic… Nobody, it can now be said, is fully fit to run a modern firm until they have read The Modern Firm.‘The Economist
John Roberts
John Roberts holds the John H. Scully Professorship in Economics, Strategic Management and International Business in the Graduate School of Business at Stanford University. He has published over seventy scholarly articles in academic journals in a variety of areas in economic theory and game theory and their application to problems in industrial competition and management. He has also written numerous case studies of businesses and co-authored the seminal textbook on the economics and management of firms (Economics, Organization and Management, Prentice Hall 1992).
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