The Modern Firm by John Roberts


ISBN
9780198293750
Published
Binding
Paperback
Pages
336
Dimensions
136 x 214 x 26mm

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 people, reconsidering which activities to conduct in-house and which to out-source, redesigning their information systems, and seeking to alter the shared beliefs, values and
norms that their people hold. In this book, John Roberts argues that there are predictable, necessary relationships among these changes that will improve performance and growth. The organizations that are successful will establish patterns of fit among the elements of their organizational designs, their competitive strategies and the external environment in which they operate and will go about this in a holistic manner. 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 eighteenth century fur trading companies to such modern firms such as BP and Nokia. Finally the book explores why these developments are happening now, pointing to the increase in global competition and changes in technology. 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.
Christmas Catalogue 2024 x BookFrenzy
63.74
RRP: $74.99
15% off RRP


This product is unable to be ordered online. Please check in-store availability.
Instore Price: $74.99
Enter your Postcode or Suburb to view availability and delivery times.

Other Titles by John Roberts

Making Simple Marionettes
27.99
23.79
15% Off
Yn Fyw yn y Cof
32.99
28.04
15% Off
Pipeline Politics
34.95
29.71
15% Off

You might also like

Leading
24.99
21.24
15% Off
Leadership
16.99
14.44
15% Off

RRP refers to the Recommended Retail Price as set out by the original publisher at time of release.
The RRP set by overseas publishers may vary to those set by local publishers due to exchange rates and shipping costs.
Due to our competitive pricing, we may have not sold all products at their original RRP.