The Collaborative Enterprise / Courtney Jung.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Jung, Courtney, Author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Organizational change.

Decentralization in management.

Cooperativeness.

Physical Description:

1 online resource

Place of Publication:

New Haven, CT : Yale University Press, [1992]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

How can businesses best tap diverse capabilities to generate new ideas, manufacture products, and properly execute strategy? In this groundbreaking, thoroughly researched book, organizational expert Charles Heckscher argues that, in a global network of creation and production, the dominant organizations will be those that master the still-uncodified skills of collaboration-replacing the giants of the past century who thrived on the mastery of bureaucratic systems.Though there has been much discussion of teamwork and alliances in recent decades, Heckscher argues that we are still a long way from fully understanding how to manage fluid and inconstant collaborations; and that this is an area dominated far more by rhetoric than reality. Using a combination of theory and extensive real-life case studies, Heckscher pushes the boundary of organization design and illustrates how companies are able to create new, effective patterns of interactions, and how they can build a culture and infrastructure necessary to support them. For organizational leaders in search of long-term competitive advantage, The Collaborative Enterprise offers sound research findings and invaluable insights.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Acknowledgments

Introduction

Chapter 1. From Bureaucracy to Collaborative Enterprise

Chapter 2. Strategies and Structures: Varieties of Collaborative Enterprise

Chapter 3. Citibank e-Solutions

Chapter 4. The Culture of Contribution

Chapter 5. Collaborative Infrastructure

Chapter 6. Two Unresolved Problems

Chapter 7. Crossing the Collaborative Frontier

Chapters 8. Journeys: Winding Paths to Collaboration

Chapter 9. Leadership: The Interactive Approach to Change

Chapter 10. Recapitulation

Chapter 11. But Is It Good?

Appendix: The Research Base

Notes

Bibliography

Index

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 24. Apr 2020)

ISBN:

9780300185829

0300185820

OCLC:

1024040520