Preface
PART I. INTRODUCTION TO ORGANIZATIONS
1. Organizations and Organization Degign
PART II. ORGANIZATIONAL PURPOSE AND STRUCTURAL DESIGN
2. Strategy, Organization Design, and Effectiveness
3. Fundamentals of Organization Structure
PART III. OPEN SYSTEM DESIGN ELEMENTS
4. The External Environment
5. Interorganizational Relationships
6. Designing Organizations for the International Environment
7. Designs for Social Impact: Dual-Purpose Organizations, Corporate Sustainability, and Ethics
PART IV. INTERNAL DESIGN ELEMENTS
8. Manufacturing and Service Technologies
9. Designs for Digital Organizations and Big Data
10. Organization Size, Life Cycle, and Decline
PART V. MANAGING DYNAMIC PROCESSES
11. Organizational Culture and Control
12. Innovation and Change
13. Decision-Making Processes
14. Conflict, Power, and Politics
Integrative Cases.
Glossary.
Name Index.
Richard L. Daft [Àú]
Richard L. Daft, Ph.D., is the Brownlee O. Currey, Jr., Professor of Management in the Owen Graduate School of Management at Vanderbilt University. Dr. Daft specializes in the study of organization theory and leadership and is a fellow of the Academy of Management. He has served on the editorial boards of the Academy of Management Journal, Administrative Science Quarterly and Journal of Management Education. He has been the associate editor-in-chief of Organization Science and served for three years as associate editor of Administrative Science Quarterly. Dr. Daft has authored or co-authored 14 books and written dozens of scholarly articles, papers and chapters in academic books. A noted expert in organization behavior and organization design, Dr. Daft is one of today's most highly cited academics in the fields of economics and business.