Managing Complexity in Organizations: Text and Cases

ISBN-13: 9780230252912 / Angielski / Miękka / 2010 / 368 str.

Christoph Nedopil

Opis

Combining rigorous academic research with the latest practical tools and techniques, this book explores the growing area of complextity management in business. Through a range of high quality international cases leading authors help students to understand how to manage organizations in unpredictable and complex business environments.

Spis treści

PART ONE Ockham's Complexity Razor – Managing Complexity in Organisations PART TWO Business Models and Strategy Complexity Drivers in Sustainable Strategies Complexity in Global Business Strategies Managing Risk Partnerships and Alliances PART THREE Complexity and the Organization Corporate Governance Subsidiary Management Project Management PART FOUR Marketing Supply Chain Management The Backbone of Complex, Global Acting Organizations Management of IT and Technology Human Resources Management Innovation Management PART FIVE Leadership, despite Complexity Complexity and Stakeholders Complexity in a Crisis PART SIX Managerial Implications.

O autorze

CHRISTOPH NEDOPIL is Managing Director of YOUSE, an innovation consultancy in Berlin, Germany, and Consultant for the World Bank.
 
ULRICH STEGER is Professor of Environmental Management at IMD, Lausanne, Switzerland.
 
WOLFGANG AMANN is the Director of Executive Education at the Goethe Business School, Frankfurt, Germany. He also teaches at both St. Gallan and IMD in Switzerland. He was previously Professor of Strategy and International Business at Henley Management College, UK.

Blurb

Managing Complexity in Organizations is a lively new text written by academics from one of the world's leading business schools. Using a series of global case studies from a variety of industries, the authors outline their frameworks for understanding and managing complexity.

The book examines the role of complexity theory in organizations and the importance of flexibility in decision-making. Managing Complexity in Organizations goes on to discuss how flexibility allows for improved, quicker responses to ongoing change - a necessity in today's unpredictable business environment. The authors present four key drivers of complexity: diversity; interdependence; ambiguity; and fast flux, thereby providing the reader with an effective and thorough understanding of how businesses can successfully adapt and respond to constant change.

Applying complexity theory to business organizations, Managing Complexity in Organizations: Text and Cases is an essential companion for MBA, EMBA and executive education programs.


CHRISTOPH NEDOPIL is Managing Director of YOUSE, an innovation consultancy in Berlin, Germany, and Consultant for the World Bank

ULRICH STEGER is Professor of Environmental Management at IMD, Lausanne, Switzerland

WOLFGANG AMANN is the Executive Director of Executive Education and faculty at the Goethe Business School, Frankfurt, Germany.