Organization Science articles from March 2006

Organization Science archives from March 2006

Learning to design organizations and learning from designing them.
March 1, 2006... 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,...

Making design rules: a multidomain perspective.
March 1, 2006... Design rules allocate functions to modules, identify operating principles, and set interfaces among modules that determine how organizations evolve. A case study of radical innovation in tire manufacturing illustrates the transition from old to...

Multiple faces of codification: organizational redesign in an IT organization.(Company overview)
March 1, 2006... This paper details a longitudinal interpretative field study of an information technology (IT) organization in which a new chief information officer (CIO) implemented a major organizational redesign. The redesign increased the degree of...

Designing a new organization at NASA: an organization design process using simulation.
March 1, 2006... The challenge for NASA's Systems Analysis Integrated Discipline Team (SAIDT) is to develop a new organization design capable of performing complex modeling and analysis tasks, using team members at various NASA centers. The focus is on: (1)...

From organization design to organization designing.
March 1, 2006... Organization design in its verb form is explored through a study of the design practices of a major contemporary architect, Frank O. Gehry, and his firm, Gehry Partners, LLP. Through four case studies, we explore how the organization design of...

Organization design and effectiveness over the innovation life cycle.
March 1, 2006... Differing bases of competition in early and later stages of an innovation's life cycle call for differing organization designs. Designs that fit early strategic contingencies tend to misfit later ones. Over time, innovating units must either...

Mitigating hazards through continuing design: the birth and evolution of a pediatric intensive care unit.
March 1, 2006... Often, researchers study organizations in which design is largely in place and the design process is shrouded in the distant past. However, the design process can have dramatic implications for how organizations function. This paper reports a...

Designing the boundaries of the firm: from "make, buy, or ally" to the dynamic benefits of vertical architecture.
March 1, 2006... The concept of "vertical architecture" defines the scope of a firm and the extent to which it is open to final and intermediate markets; it describes the configurations of transactional choices along a firm's value chain. A firm can make or buy...

Going mobile: aesthetic design considerations from Calder and the constructivists.
March 1, 2006... Design thinking has long tried to join form, function, and aesthetic appeal. In cars, furniture, architecture, typography, clothes, or photography, good designs regularly solve problems of movement, massing, and balance in attractive and...

Emergent by design: performance and transformation at Infosys Technologies.
March 1, 2006... We explore how organizations may be designed to transform themselves even as they continue to perform seamlessly on a day-to-day basis. Our inquiry frame recognizes that organizational designs comprise several elements--people, technologies,...

Construction principles and design rules in the case of circular design.
March 1, 2006... This paper proposes science-based organization design that uses construction principles and design rules to guide practitioner-academic projects. Organization science implies construction principles for creating and implementing designs. These...

Power to the principals: decentralization in three large school districts.
March 1, 2006... School districts have made several attempts at decentralizing. However, decentralization in school districts can mean so many different things that the term has nearly lost its meaning. This paper reports a study of three large urban school...