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This book highlights the growing number of ‘post-bureaucratic’ firms that are abandoning hierarchical organizational forms in favor of self-managing teams. Addressing the need to outperform, these new organization types foresee the benefits of an or
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Maria Carmela Annosi • Federica Brunetta
New Organizational Forms, Controls, and Institutions Understanding the Tensions in ‘Post-Bureaucratic’ Organizations
Maria Carmela Annosi Wageningen University Wageningen, The Netherlands
Federica Brunetta LUISS Guido Carli University Rome, Italy
ISBN 978-3-319-54749-7 DOI 10.1007/978-3-319-54750-3
ISBN 978-3-319-54750-3 (eBook)
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Contents
1 Introduction Introduction Collective Learning and the Emergence of Institutions Self-Managing Teams, Regulation and Self-Regulation Generative Learning as a Defining Characteristic of a Learning Organization Challenges with a Decentered Regulation of Self-Managing Teams’ Generative-Learning Conduct Book Structure References
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2 Institutions and Organizations: The Role of Institutional Actors Introduction Institutions and Organizations: Roles Actors: Formal and Informal Institutions The Role of Institutional Actors for New Organizations Institutional Change and Organizational Change Conclusion References
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3 External Institutional Pressures Introduction The Institutional Environment Organizational Field, Legitimation Mechanisms, and Isomorphic Processes Problems and Ordering Mechanisms Institutional-Based View Conclusion References
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4 New Organizational Forms Introduction Overview on New Organizational Forms Characteristics of Self-Managing Teams Self-Managing Teams in the New Institutional Context Characteristics
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