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- 16 Nov 1999
- Lessons from the Classroom
Leading Change and Organizational Renewal
managerial challenge is how to design agile organizations able to leap from strength to strength to strength. How is evolution in the global economy affecting managerial roles and responsibilities? Tushman: Not only has the pace of change... View Details
Keywords: by Staff
- 2017
- Chapter
On Hybrids and Hybrid Organizing: A Review and Roadmap for Future Research
By: Julie Battilana, Marya Besharov and Bjoern Mitzinneck
The purpose of this chapter is to advance research on hybrids by bringing together work from these multiple perspectives; identifying common themes in the antecedents, challenges, opportunities, and management strategies associated with hybridity and highlighting... View Details
Battilana, Julie, Marya Besharov, and Bjoern Mitzinneck. "On Hybrids and Hybrid Organizing: A Review and Roadmap for Future Research." Chap. 5 in The SAGE Handbook of Organizational Institutionalism. 2nd ed. Edited by Royston Greenwood, Christine Oliver, Thomas B. Lawrence, and Renate E. Meyer, 128–162. Thousand Oaks, CA: SAGE Publications, 2017.
- 11 Jun 2006 - 13 Jun 2006
- Conference Presentation
Exploring the Links Between Product and Organizational Architectures: An Empirical Study of Open and Closed Source Software
By: Alan MacCormack
- 28 Apr 2006 - 1 May 2006
- Conference Presentation
Exploring the Relationship between Product Architecture and Organizational Form: A Test of "Conway's Law"
By: Alan MacCormack
MacCormack, Alan. Exploring the Relationship between Product Architecture and Organizational Form: A Test of "Conway's Law". In Empirical Studies of Software Development (Session Chair). Paper presented at the Annual Conference of the Production and Operations Management Society (POMS), Boston, MA, April 28–May 1, 2006.
- 07 Jul 2003
- Research & Ideas
The Organizational Model for Open Source
foundations with formal boards and designated roles and responsibilities. Now there is a wide range of foundations that are emerging. At one end of the continuum are nonprofit foundations that act as little more than legal shells to hold... View Details
Keywords: by Mallory Stark
- 29 Oct 2018
- Research & Ideas
Hunting for a Hot Job in High Tech? Try 'Digitization Economist'
even seven figures because their expertise is just so valuable.” What does a digitization/tech economist do every day? Problems they work on include: Online advertising design. Advertising inventory on search engines is often sold via auction. Economists help companies... View Details
- 12 Mar 2012
- Research & Ideas
Crowded at the Top: The Rise of the Functional Manager
It's getting a little less lonely at the top. So says recent research that reports a dramatic change in the top management structure of large US firms. According to a survey of some 300 Fortune 500 companies, the number of managers... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 30 Oct 2005
- Research & Ideas
Tuning Jobs to Fit Your Company
In a recent Harvard Business Review article, professor Robert Simons wrote about how organizations can design jobs for maximum performance. In this excerpt, Simons discusses what he terms the four basic "spans" of a job—control,... View Details
Keywords: by Robert Simons
- 01 Aug 2012
- What Do You Think?
Should CEOs Worry About ‘Too Big to Succeed?’
(through outsourcing), and give their jobs meaning, then overall size will cease to be much of an issue." Shadreck Salli agreed, commenting that "Any entity is designed to function at different levels/scale. Regardless of the... View Details
- 23 Jul 2012
- Research & Ideas
Book Excerpt: ‘Talk, Inc.’
conversation, we have attached to each element a word that begins with the letter I. “ organizational conversation replaces the traditional one-way structure of corporate communication with a dynamic process in which leaders talk with... View Details
Keywords: Re: Boris Groysberg
- 01 Dec 2015
- Research & Ideas
What to Do When Your Organization Has Dueling Missions
A couple of years ago, hip-hop artist Macklemore topped the Billboard 100 chart with Thrift Shop, a paean to buying inexpensive used clothing from Goodwill Industries. Indeed, like the rapper, millions of people know Goodwill primarily as a successful retailer; in... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 04 Apr 2005
- What Do You Think?
Can an Organization’s “Deep Smarts” Be Preserved?
military services begins in structuring leadership positions of 'executive officer' ... principal assistants to designated leaders having command responsibilities ... growth positions to enhance individuals'... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 01 Jun 2017
- News
Drawing on the Crowd for Innovative Problem-Solving
organized in two categories: competitions and collaborative communities. His work has an impact both on practice, by helping partners solve difficult innovation dilemmas, and on theory, by optimizing design parameters needed to engineer... View Details
- 2013
- Working Paper
Imprinting: Toward A Multilevel Theory
By: Christopher Marquis and Andras Tilcsik
The concept of imprinting has attracted considerable interest in numerous fields—including organizational ecology, institutional theory, network analysis, and career research—and has been applied at several levels of analysis, from the industry to the individual. This... View Details
Marquis, Christopher, and Andras Tilcsik. "Imprinting: Toward A Multilevel Theory." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 13-061, January 2013. (Forthcoming in Academy of Management Annals.)