• An integrated flow between chapters — allows students to clearly see how topics relate to each other from the start.
• An in-depth look at organizational culture from the origins of culture to its relationship with organizational effectiveness.
• Detailed coverage of the stakeholder approach to organizations and the implications of this approach for organizational effectiveness.
• Explanations of the most recent developments in organizational structure such as the product team structure, outsourcing, and the network organizations.
• Discussion of recent literature on inter-organizational linkage mechanisms, including the role of resource dependence theory and transaction cost theory in explaining why organizations choose different types of linkage mechanisms.
• An integrated account of the strategy-structure relationship.
• Comprehensive coverage of international strategy and structure and global organizational design.
• An analysis of new technological developments, including the Internet, integrated with traditional concepts already used in organizational theory. See how technical complexity, task non-routinism, and task interdependence affect organizational design.
• A detailed discussion of both population ecology theory and institutional theory.

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