Nobuo Takahashi

Design of Adaptive Organizations

Models and Empirical Research

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Produktbeschreibung

This book adopts the decision theoretic viewpoint in the organization design problems in management and organization theory. The first part considers a short-run adaptive process in the organization. The organization design is represented by a combination of the organization structure and the management system and constitutes a part of the sequential decision problem of the work. The second part considers the long-run adaptive process for modifying and improving the work. This process is formulated as a partially observable Markov decision process. The final part restates the theoretical results of the previous two parts as normative propositions on the efficient organization design. To test these propositions, the study focusses on the organization structures and the management systems of Japanese firms and obtains the data which support the author's theoretical propositions. This book provides a useful normative approach to organization design problems in management and organization theory.

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Organization design has been discussed by many authors in management and organization theory. They have obtained intuitive and prescriptive propositions appealing that the best organization design is contingent on the environmental conditions. But their studies, called contingency theory, are mostly based on empirical research. Most of the "propositions" are drawn as only inferences from the results of them. On the other hand, decision theoretic models of "organizations" in the stochastic environment have been studied by some economists and management scientists independently of contingency theory. In this book, important aspects of organization design problems are formulated as statistical decision problems in the framework of management and organization theory. Part One of this book analyzes a short-run adaptive problems of the organization design. Part One contains an expanded exposition of the ideas and results published in the professional journals, and I would like to thankthe anonymous reviewers of the following journals: Behaviormetrika, Human Relations, Behavioral Science. Part Two of this book considers a long-run adaptive process in the organization, and has not previously been published in its IV present form, although a version of this part is to appear in Journal of the Department of Liberal Arts, March 1987, The University of Tokyo. The resul ts of Part One and Part Two are supported by the empirical research on Japanese firms in Part Three. This research was financially supported by Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Public Corporation (NTT). I acknowledge this gratefully.

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Produktdetails

• Lecture Notes in Economics and Mathematical Systems 291
• Verlag: Springer / Springer Berlin Heidelberg / Springer, Berlin
• Artikelnr. des Verlages: 978-3-540-17834-7
• 1987.
• Seitenzahl: 152
• Erscheinungstermin: 5. Mai 1987
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 254mm x 178mm x 9mm
• Gewicht: 248g
• ISBN-13: 9783540178347
• ISBN-10: 3540178341
• Artikelnr.: 09222761

Inhaltsangabe

One Short-Run Adaptive Problems.- 1 The Model.- 2 Efficient Organizational Design.- 3 Some Managerial Problems.- Two Long-Run Adaptive Problems.- 4 Management Systems of Innovation.- Three Managerial Implications.- 5 Implications for Organization Theory.- 6 Empirical Research on Japanese Firms.- Appendix A Mathemtical Appendix.- Appendix B Trigraph: A Computer Program.- References.