Designing the networked organization [electronic resource] / Ken Everett ; with contributions by Richard White [and others].

ISBN:

9781606491966

Title:

Author:

Everett, Ken.

Personal Author:

Everett, Ken.

Edition:

1st ed.

Publication Information:

[New York, N.Y.] (222 East 46th Street, New York, NY 10017) : Business Expert Press, 2011.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (x, 173 pages) : illustrations, digital file.

Series:

Strategic management collection,

General Note:

Title from PDF title page (viewed July 26, 2011).

Contents:

Preface -- Chapter 1. Introduction -- Chapter 2. Road map -- Chapter 3. Starting conditions -- Chapter 4. Creating connections -- Chapter 5. Crafting community -- Chapter 6. Hosting as leading -- Chapter 7. Convening coalitions -- Chapter 8. Suffocating a network -- Chapter 9. Organizations, networks, communities, and hybrids -- Chapter 10. The closing circle -- Resource 1: Money is thin; life is thick -- Resource 2: Affiliate profile -- Resource 3: Research project -- Resource 4: Case study -- Resource 5: Network voice -- Resource 6: About us -- Notes -- References -- Index.

Local Note:

eBooks on EBSCOhost

Subject Term:

Business networks.

Communication in organizations.

Interorganizational relations.

Organizational effectiveness.

Added Author:

White, Richard.

Added Corporate Author:

Business Expert Press.

Format:

Electronic Resources

Electronic Access:

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Publication Date:

2011

Publication Information:

[New York, N.Y.] (222 East 46th Street, New York, NY 10017) : Business Expert Press, 2011.

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Summary

This book explores how naturally connected organizations ( NCOs) can survive and thrive in an increasingly unpredictable world using the principles of natural connectivity, organic growth and collaboration. It shows how naturally connected organizations are resilient through cycles of boom and bust. The book argues that the success of these organizations is in their design, and that they are the organizations of the 2lst century. They demonstrate that a natural way of running a global business can work. This book builds on earlier work on networks and contributes to the Organizational Design field of management study. Naturally connected organizations are associations of companies and/or individuals, which function via collaboration, communication and connectivity for a shared purpose. NCOs use organic organizing principles rather than control mechanisms'. Traditional organizations embrace mechanical metaphors, the results of which are engineered or re-engineered organizations based on command and control. NCOs are based on natural, organic metaphors.