Organization design -- more generally referred to as "design theories" -- explains how business owners and managers structure a company so that it can reach its full potential in terms of maximizing ...

In this column, I have argued that the conventional practice and theory of change management could itself benefit from some overhaul. In this post, I will zoom out, summarizing nine key propositions ...

In today’s digital economy, where software drives nearly every organizational function, the divide between vision and ...

Though a company's top management must consider many issues when designing an organization's structure, they all relate to only a few design elements. Designers start with the most basic issue of a ...

This paper develops a parsimonious process-level theory that connects organizational structure to exploration and exploitation. Toward this end, it develops a mathematical model of organizational ...

Zhang, Letian, Wenjie Ma, and Jiaqi Jin. "Trust and Family at Fuwei (A): A Confucian Approach to Organizational Design." Harvard Business School Case 425-014, December 2024.

Universities in the United Kingdom and around the world are adjusting to the changes in demographics, information technology, society and, of course, the coronavirus pandemic. As I see it, the higher ...

Organization Science, Vol. 1, No. 4 (1990), pp. 360-374 (15 pages) The specific nature of decision rules and the pattern of connections they create between people help determine the performance of an ...

I am an applied microeconomic theorist with a focus on organizational economics and industrial organization. At a broad level, my research studies how incentives—predominately financial ones—affect ...