Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Figures
- Tables
- Preface to first edition
- Preface to second edition
- An outline of the step-by-step approach
- Step 1 Getting started
- Step 2 Strategy
- Step 3 Structure
- Step 4 Process and people
- Step 5 Coordination and control
- Applying the step-by-step approach in a dynamic world
- 11 Design dynamics: managing change
- 12 New forms and multi-unit organizations: building on the fundamentals
- References
- Index
12 - New forms and multi-unit organizations: building on the fundamentals
from Applying the step-by-step approach in a dynamic world
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 June 2012
Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Figures
- Tables
- Preface to first edition
- Preface to second edition
- An outline of the step-by-step approach
- Step 1 Getting started
- Step 2 Strategy
- Step 3 Structure
- Step 4 Process and people
- Step 5 Coordination and control
- Applying the step-by-step approach in a dynamic world
- 11 Design dynamics: managing change
- 12 New forms and multi-unit organizations: building on the fundamentals
- References
- Index
Summary
Introduction
In this chapter, we discuss new and more complex design situations, that is, multi-organizations, including joint ventures, mergers, and strategic alliances/partnerships, including outsourcing. Major design challenges arise in situations where multiple units have to be consolidated into one operating unit. The name for such combined units may from a legal point of view be merger, joint venture, or strategic alliance, but the challenge for these new forms still follows the fundamentals that we have laid out.
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- Organizational DesignA Step-by-Step Approach, pp. 233 - 245Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2011