* An integrated flow between chapters — allows students to clearly see how topics relate to each other from the start.
* An in-depth look at organizational culture from the origins of culture to its relationship with organizational effectiveness.
* Detailed coverage of the stakeholder approach to organizations and the implications of this approach for organizational effectiveness.
* Explanations of the most recent developments in organizational structure such as the product team structure, outsourcing, and the network organizations.
* Discussion of recent literature on inter-organizational linkage mechanisms, including the role of resource dependence theory and transaction cost theory in explaining why organizations choose different types of linkage mechanisms.
* An integrated account of the strategy-structure relationship.
* Comprehensive coverage of international strategy and structure and global organizational design.
* An analysis of new technological developments, including the Internet, integrated with traditional concepts already used in organizational theory. See how technical complexity, task non-routinism, and task interdependence affect organizational design.
* A detailed discussion of both population ecology theory and institutional theory.


TABLE OF CONTENTS

Part. 1 The Organization
Ch. 1 Organizations and Organizational Stakeholders
Ch. 2 Basic Challenges of Organizational Design
Ch. 3 Designing Organizational Structure: Authority and Control
Ch. 4 Designing Organizational Structure: Specialization and Coordination
Ch. 5 Managing Organizational Culture and Ethics

Part. 2 The Organizational Environment
Ch. 6 Managing the Organizational Environment
Ch. 7 Organizational Strategy and Structure
Ch. 8 Managing the International Environment

Part. 3 The Technological Environment
Ch. 9 Organizational Design and Technology
Ch. 10 Managing the New Technological Environment

Part. 4 Managing Organizational Processes
Ch. 11 Organizational Birth, Growth, Decline, and Death
Ch. 12 Decision Making and Organizational Learning
Ch. 13 Managing Innovation and Change
Ch. 14 Organizational Conflict, Power, and Politics

Part. V Cases in Organizational Theory