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The necessary nature of future firms : attributes of survivors in a changing world /
Firms - like all living systems - must be congruent with aligned with, compatible with their environments, or they will not survive. This text looks at ways in which future firms will need to co-operate with their environments.
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Thousand Oaks, CA :
Sage Publications,
©2004.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Dangerous deficiencies
- What is happening?
- What is not?
- The role of top management
- About this book
- The future environments of business organizations
- Scientific knowledge and improved technology
- Scientific knowledge
- Improved technologies
- Mental blocks to imagining a different world on the same planet
- Interim summary and transition
- The complexity of future environments
- Environmental variety
- Environmental density and interdependence
- Interim summary and transition
- Environmental dynamism and competitiveness
- Velocity, turbulence, and instability
- Environmental competitiveness
- Summary and transition
- Sensing and interpreting the environment
- Facit AB
- Importance of environmental sensing and interpretation
- Consequences and importance of interpretation
- Environmental sensing in future firms
- Intelligence gathering
- Intelligence gathering as a staff function? as an outsourced function?
- Intelligence gathering as specialized accountability
- Intelligence gathering as eclectic responsibility
- Supporting sensors
- Probing the environment
- Sensing early responses to the firm's actions and products
- Top managers as environmental sensors
- Interim summary and transition
- Interpreting what is sensed
- Declines in quality and timeliness of organizational interpretations
- Enhancing interpretation in future firms
- Faulty interpretations
- Summary and transition
- Organizational decision making
- Decisions and decision making resource in future firms
- Increasing environmental dynamism and its consequences
- Increasing environmental complexity and its consequences
- Increasing competitiveness and its consequences
- Decision maker capabilities: past, present, future
- Interim summary and transition
- Decision making practices in future firms
- Ensuring scope
- Ensuring speed
- Effects of forthcoming information technologies on decision speed and scope
- IT investments focused on analysis
- IT investments focused on communication
- Interim summary and transition
- Tempting practices
- Intuitive decision making
- Satisficing and analogizing
- Firms' responses to personal propensities to use short-cut methods
- Summary and transition
- Knowledge acquisition: organizational learning
- Learning, knowledge, and innovation
- Organizational learning: a practice whose time has come
- Learning from experience
- Highly effective learning experiences: designed experiments
- Highly effective learning experiences: natural experiments
- Highly effective learning experiences: learning from action probes and operations
- Highly effective learning experiences: learning by observing samples of one or fewer
- Learning from others-vicarious learning
- Absorptive capacity
- Importing knowledge in the form of expertise
- Enhancing organizational learning by enhancing individual learning
- Introducing learning practices
- Summary and transition
- Leveraging learning through knowledge management
- Sematech
- The four repositories of organizational knowledge
- The need to manage knowledge
- Direct, informal knowledge sharing
- An example of how motivation can negatively affect direct, informal knowledge sharing
- Organizational culture: an achievable solution to the problem of motivation?
- Structural approaches for facilitating direct, informal knowledge sharing
- Interim summary and transition
- Knowledge management systems
- Motivational issues in knowledge management systems
- Managing motivation in knowledge management systems
- Situational influences favoring the use of extrinsic motivators
- Long-lived traditions and cultures
- Increased use of teams, and of ince.