Research and Insights Archive

Research and Insights from the Center for Effective Organizations

Control of International Joint Ventures

Tom L.C.M. Groot and Kenneth A. Merchant explain that as markets have become more globalized and competitive, it has become increasingly difficult for any single company to excel, and thus be competitive, in all aspects of a given business.

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The Front-Back Hybrid Organization

Jay Galbraith explains that a number of companies have been adopting a hybrid structure in order to respond to the simultaneous demands to be local and customer responsive and yet be global and capture scale economics.

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Developing Organizational Design Capability in Team-Based Organizations: Introduction to a Self-Design Tool

This paper by S. Mohrman describes a design tool based on the teams research conducted at the Center for Effective Organizations that guides a design team through the process of designing or redesigning a team-based organization.

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An Organizational Learning Framework for Understanding Business Process Redesign: A Case Study From the Financial Services Industry

In this paper, S. Mohrman, R. Tenkasi, and A. Mohrman, Jr. examine one company’s experience with business process redesign coupled with the implementation of a new business strategy, advanced, networked information technology, and organizational design.

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New Approaches to Organizing: Competencies, Capabilities and the Decline of the Bureaucratic Model

E. Lawler III and G. Ledford, Jr. argue that in an era of constant change and demands for ever higher levels of performance, bureaucratic designs appear clumsy and lethargic.

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Transforming the Human Resources Function

Sue Mohrman and Ed Lawler state that the emergence of the global economy, overcapacity in many industries, monumental improvements in the power of computer and telecommunications tools, and the emergence of the knowledge economy are among the forces that are resulting in fundamental change in the design of organizations.

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Teams and Technology in the New Organization

In this article from 1996, Susan G. Cohen, Don Mankin, and Tora K. Bikson discuss how teams and information technology (IT) are two of the most important developments in organizations today.

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The Discipline of Organization Design

S. Mohrman, A. Mohrman, Jr., and R. Tenkasi discuss how as organizations adapt to rapidly changing and increasingly demanding environments, they find themselves continually transforming themselves.

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Teams and Technology: Tensions in Participatory Design

Don Mankin, Susan G. Cohen, and Tora K. Bikson address the trend that year after year, organizations increase their investment in new information and communication systems (IT) and use teams to do more and more of their work.

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Motivation for School Reform

S. Mohrman and E. Lawler III state that the school reform movement seeks higher educational standards for all students, moving authority into the local school to develop new approaches and apply resources appropriately to meet the needs of all students, and new approaches to teaching and learning meet the educational needs of modern society.

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