Elgar Introduction to Designing Organizations

Miguel Pina e Cunha, Fundação Amélia de Mello Professor, Nova School of Business and Economics, Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Portugal, Stewart Clegg, School of Project Management, The University of Sydney, Australia, Medhanie Gaim, Associate Professor of Management, Umeå School of Business, Economics, and Statistics, Sweden and Luca Giustiniano, Professor of Organization Studies, Department of Business and Management, Luiss University, Italy

• Contents: 1. Introduction to the Elgar Introduction to Designing Organizations 2. The fundamentals of organizational design 3. Organization design and change 4. The traditional organization: hierarchy meets bureaucracy 5. Less hierarchical organizations: the fall of the traditional pillars (part I: hierarchy) 6. The agile organization: the fall of the traditional pillars part II: task design and allocation) 7. Final reflections: patterns, principles and practices References Index

‘A must-read book to those interested in the art of management in a fast-evolving world. A complex environment wherein organizations face increasing paradoxical tensions among their goals and accountabilities. Relying on their valuable knowledge on paradox theory, the authors offer the readers key insights from theory and real organizational cases, helping them understand why different organizational designs emerge and when it is fruitful to apply them.’