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Building the flexible firm : how to remain competitive

Author: Henk Wijtze Volberda
Publisher: Oxford [England] ; New York : Oxford University Press, 1999.
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How do managers reconcile the conflicting forces of change and stability? How do they promote order and control, while having to learn to innovate and respond? This book shows how, for many firms,  Read more...

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Document Type: Book
All Authors / Contributors: Henk Wijtze Volberda
ISBN: 0198295952 9780198295952
OCLC Number: 44807159
Notes: "First published in paperback 1999"--T.p. verso.
Description: xxiv, 349 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Contents: 1. Introduction; 2. A Revision of Management and Organization; 3. Flexibibity, the Hallmark of Postmodern Organization; 4. Grasping the Paradox of Flexibility; 5. The Managerial Task: Creating Flexible Capabilities; 6. The Organization Design Task: Reducing Organizational Barriers; 7. Resolving the Paradox: Flexibility under Various Levels of Competition; 8. Towards the Flexible Form; 9. How to Improve the Firm's Flexibility: Tools and Techniques; 10. Discovering Flexible Corporations of the Future: Managerial and Theoretical Implications; References; Appendices
Responsibility: Henk W. Volberda.

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