Learning to design organizations and learning from designing them

• 成果类型: Article
• 署名作者: Dunbar, RLM; Starbuck, WH
• 署名单位: New York University; University of Oregon
• 刊物名称: ORGANIZATION SCIENCE
• ISSN/ISSBN: 1047-7039
• DOI: 10.1287/orsc.1060.0181
• 发表日期: 2006
• 页码: 171-178
• 关键词: Organization design; EVOLUTION; fit; learning; research issues

摘要

The academic focus of organization studies has unfortunately drifted over the years from the issues that organizations pose for their members and their societies, and the issues that confront people who seek to improve organizations. However, studies of efforts to design organizations can help us to better understand organizations and may also help us to improve them. The papers in this special issue of Organization Science describe several specific efforts to design organizations, telling why people wanted to make changes and what happened when people sought to make them.