Re-Creating the Corporation A Design of Organizations for the 21st Century

Name: Re-Creating the Corporation A Design of Organizations for the 21st Century
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ISBN: 9780195123876

ISBN-10: 0195123875

ISBN-13: 9780195123876

Edition: 1999

Authors: Russell L. Ackoff

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Over the last three decades the average life expectancy of a corporation in North America has dipped well below 20 years. In fact, by 1983 a full third of the 1970 Fortune 500 companies had been acquired, merged, or broken apart. In this landmark book, one of the business world's foremost pioneers, Russell L. Ackoff, delivers this indispensable guide for those hoping to beat these odds--and to better navigate the corporate challenges of the next millennium. While most business and management schools continue to teach the functions of a corporation separately--production, marketing, finance, personnel--the reality is that for a corporation to endure each division must work with the others to…

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List price: $60.00
Copyright year: 1999
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Publication date: 7/29/1999
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 352
Size: 9.41" wide x 6.18" long x 1.18" tall
Weight: 1.430
Language: English



Preface



Background



The Nature of Systems



Types of Systems and Models



Types of Management



Process: Planning, Design, Implementation, and Learning



Formulating the Mess: Sensing and Making Sense of the Situation



Ends Planning: Where to Go



Means Planning: How to Get There



Resource Planning: What's Needed to Get There



Implementation and Control: Doing It and Learning



Designs: Democracy, Economy, and Flexibility



A Democratic Hierarchy: The Circular Organization



The Internal Market Economy



The Permanently Structured Multidimensional Organization



Change: Reformations and Transformations



Panaceas, Fads, and Quick Fixes



Organizational Development and Transformational Leadership


App. A: A Short Bibliography on Systems



An Application of Interactive Planning


References and Sources


Index