Building the flexible firm : how to remain competitive / Henk W. Volberda
Imprint
New York : Oxford, 1998
Descript
xxiv, 349 p. : ill. ; 25 cm
CONTENT
revision of management and organization -- Flexibility, the Hallmark of postmodern organization -- Grasping the paradox of flexibility: a multidimensional concept -- Managerial task: creating flexible capabilities -- Organization design task reducing organizational barriers -- Resolving the paradox: flexibility under various levels of competition -- Towards the flexible form -- How to improve the firm's flexibility: tools and techniques -- Discovering flexible corporations of the future: managerial and theoretical implications -- App.l Standardized questionnaires for the FAR method