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- July 1994
- Background Note
Note on Retail Organizations
By: David E. Bell
Describes a typical organizational structure for retailers and discusses duties of various individuals such as buyer, category manager, etc. View Details
Bell, David E. "Note on Retail Organizations." Harvard Business School Background Note 595-009, July 1994.
- 1965
- Book
Product Innovation and Organization
By: J. W. Lorsch
Lorsch, J. W. Product Innovation and Organization. New York: Macmillan Publishing, 1965.
- winter 2009
- Article
Creativity, Improvisation, and Organizations
By: Colin M. Fisher and Teresa M. Amabile
'Improvisational creativity' involves simultaneously identifying new challenges and generating responses, with little or no time to prepare. View Details
- March 1999
- Article
Informal Authority in Organizations
By: George P. Baker, Robert Gibbons and Kevin J. Murphy
Keywords: Organizations
Baker, George P., Robert Gibbons, and Kevin J. Murphy. "Informal Authority in Organizations." Journal of Law, Economics & Organization 15, no. 1 (March 1999).
- 13 Oct 2015
- News
Why Organizations Don’t Learn
- 1989
- Book
The Management of Organizations
By: Michael Tushman, C. O'Reilly and D. Nadler
Tushman, Michael, C. O'Reilly and D. Nadler, eds. The Management of Organizations. New York: Ballinger Publishing Company, 1989.
- December 1975 (Revised January 1987)
- Background Note
Note on Organization Design
By: Jay W. Lorsch
Deals with the organizational designer trying to create a structure, rewards, and a system of measurement that are compatible with the external environment, strategy, tasks, the members of the organization, management style, and the existing culture. View Details
Keywords: Organizational Design
Lorsch, Jay W. "Note on Organization Design." Harvard Business School Background Note 476-094, December 1975. (Revised January 1987.)
- 2012
- Chapter
Technological Innovation and Organizations
By: Pierre Azoulay and Josh Lerner
Azoulay, Pierre, and Josh Lerner. "Technological Innovation and Organizations." Chap. 14 in Handbook of Organizational Economics, edited by Robert Gibbons and John Roberts, 575–603. Princeton University Press, 2012.
- 1994
- Chapter
Project Leadership and Organization
By: K. B. Clark, M. Iansiti and R. Billington
Clark, K. B., M. Iansiti, and R. Billington. "Project Leadership and Organization." In The Perpetual Enterprise Machine: Seven Keys to Corporate Renewal through Successful Product and Process Development, edited by H. K. Bowen, K. B. Clark, C. H. Holloway, and S. C. Wheelwright. New York: Oxford University Press, 1994.
- 01 Mar 2009
- News
Honoring HBS’s Organization Men
A SEMINAL WORK: Lorsch and Lawrence, together again. A celebration of the past and a look to the future were all part of the program at an evening last December with HBS professor emeritus Paul Lawrence and professor Jay Lorsch, authors of View Details
- November 2011
- Case
Lowell General Physician Hospital Organization
By: Richard M.J. Bohmer and Natalie Kindred
This case focuses on the Alternative Quality Contract (AQC), a novel payment program designed to incentivize providers to deliver less costly, high quality health care. Under the AQC, offered by Blue Cross Blue Shield of Massachusetts, providers received a fixed-dollar... View Details
Keywords: Cost Management; Service Delivery; Health Care and Treatment; Health Industry; Massachusetts
Bohmer, Richard M.J., and Natalie Kindred. "Lowell General Physician Hospital Organization." Harvard Business School Case 612-016, November 2011.
- 2011
- Working Paper
Organizations in the Shadow of Communities
By: Siobhan O'Mahony and Karim R. Lakhani
The concept of a community form is drawn upon in many subfields of organizational theory. Although there is not much convergence on a level of analysis, there is convergence on a mode of action that is increasingly relevant to a knowledge-based economy marked by porous... View Details
Keywords: Knowledge Sharing; Organizational Culture; Civil Society or Community; Boundaries; Information Technology; Theory; Value Creation
O'Mahony, Siobhan, and Karim R. Lakhani. "Organizations in the Shadow of Communities." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 11-131, June 2011.
- February 1980 (Revised March 1980)
- Background Note
Note on Marketing Organization
Corey, E. Raymond. "Note on Marketing Organization." Harvard Business School Background Note 580-109, February 1980. (Revised March 1980.)
- October 1980
- Background Note
Framework for Analyzing Organizations
Schlesinger, Leonard A. "Framework for Analyzing Organizations." Harvard Business School Background Note 481-066, October 1980.
Centralized Governance in Decentralized Organizations
We systematically document governance centralization in decentralized autonomous organizations (DAOs) and study its drivers and economic implications. Using multiple data sources and granular on-chain transactional data, we compare our findings to those in... View Details
- 2009
- Article
Implicit Affect in Organizations
By: Sigal G. Barsade, Lakshmi Ramarajan and Drew Westen
Our goal is to integrate the construct of implicit affect—affective processes activated or processed outside of conscious awareness that influence ongoing thought, behavior, and conscious emotional experience—into the field of organizational behavior. We begin by... View Details
Keywords: Organizational Behavior; Framework; Organizational Culture; Behavior; Cognition and Thinking; Emotions; Motivation and Incentives; Perspective
Barsade, Sigal G., Lakshmi Ramarajan, and Drew Westen. "Implicit Affect in Organizations." Research in Organizational Behavior 29 (2009): 135–162.
- 13 May 2022
- News
How Great Leaders Energize Their Organizations
- Research Summary
Building and Managing Product Centric Organizations
By: Stefan H. Thomke
Building and Managing Product Centric Organizations View Details
- December 2010
- Article
Organizing the In-between: The Population Dynamics of Network-weaving Organizations in the Global Interstate Network
By: Paul Ingram and Magnus Thor Torfason
This article examines the population dynamics and viability of network weavers, which are organizations that provide network relations for others. An analysis of the population dynamics of the intergovernmental organizations (IGOs) that are the basis of the interstate... View Details
Keywords: Networks; Organizations; Demographics; Relationships; Globalization; Economics; Conflict and Resolution; Value; Lawfulness; Competition
Ingram, Paul, and Magnus Thor Torfason. "Organizing the In-between: The Population Dynamics of Network-weaving Organizations in the Global Interstate Network." Administrative Science Quarterly 55, no. 4 (December 2010): 577–605.