Building the Flexible Firm: How to Remain CompetitiveHow do firms cope with changing environments? Is flexibility really the solution? Based on an Igor Ansoff Award winning study, Building the Flexible Firm shows how flexibility has become the new strategic challenge for contemporary firms. Offering a wealth of insights and based on extensive interviews with practitioners, Henk Volberda provides a strategic framework which explains what types of flexibility are effective under different organizational conditions and environmental characteristics. He also demonstrates an integrated method for diagnosing a firm's flexibility and for guiding the transition to greater flexibility and responsiveness. |
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Contents
Introduction | 1 |
A Revision of Management and Organization | 11 |
Flexibility The Hallmark of Postmodern Organization | 30 |
A Multidimensional | 81 |
Creating Flexible Capabilities | 107 |
Flexibility under Various Levels | 184 |
Towards The Flexible Form | 209 |
Tools | 224 |
Appendices | 283 |
Diagnostic Results of the Multicase Longitudinal Study | 311 |
| 317 | |
| 335 | |
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| Title | Building the Flexible Firm: How to Remain Competitive |
| Author | Henk Wijtze Volberda |
| Edition | illustrated, reprint |
| Publisher | Oxford University Press, 1999 |
| ISBN | 0198295952, 9780198295952 |
| Length | 349 pages |
| Subjects | › › Business & Economics / Corporate & Business History Business & Economics / Development / Sustainable Development Business & Economics / Organizational Behavior Business & Economics / Structural Adjustment |
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