The Microstructure of Organizations

Phanish Puranam is Roland Berger Chair Professor of Strategy & Organization Design at INSEAD. He is also Academic Director of INSEAD's PhD programme. Phanish's research focuses on organization design and corporate strategy. He has published extensively in internationally reputed academic journals, and has served in senior editorial roles in such journals. His research has won international awards and competitive grants awarded across the social and natural sciences. Phanish obtained his PhD at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania in 2001, and was on the faculty of London Business School till 2012.

• 1: An Introduction to the Micro-Structural Approach to Organization Design 2: Behavioral Foundations 3: Division of Labor 4: Integration of Effort 5: The Exercise of Authority 6: Hierarchies of Authority 7: Formal and Informal Organization 8: New forms of organizing 9: Methodology for Microstructures

I had been certain that our understanding of organizational structure had progressed little since the 1970s. But Puranam's compact volume has convinced me otherwise, and I would encourage anyone interested in organization design or corporate strategy to read it.