TY - CHAP
T1 - Architecting flexible organizations
AU - Morabito, Joseph
AU - Sack, Ira
AU - Stohr, Edward A.
AU - Bhate, Anilkumar
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© Springer India 2014.
PY - 2014/1/1
Y1 - 2014/1/1
N2 - The twenty-first-century organization is faced with the apparent dilemma of being efficient and innovative, lean and flexible, and hierarchical and flat. The seemingly contradictory characteristics extend into every organizational system, from culture and strategy to process and technology. The flexible organization must embrace and cultivate opposites; indeed, the organization should recognize opposites as opportunities for inventiveness and synthesis and not a dilemma that requires a choice between opposites (Takeuchi and Nonaka 2004). This is in contrast to a more traditional organization that either chooses one principle over its apparent opposite or adopts an engineering perspective that optimizes something between opposites. The knowledge organization, in contrast, synthesizes opposites into something unique and new.
AB - The twenty-first-century organization is faced with the apparent dilemma of being efficient and innovative, lean and flexible, and hierarchical and flat. The seemingly contradictory characteristics extend into every organizational system, from culture and strategy to process and technology. The flexible organization must embrace and cultivate opposites; indeed, the organization should recognize opposites as opportunities for inventiveness and synthesis and not a dilemma that requires a choice between opposites (Takeuchi and Nonaka 2004). This is in contrast to a more traditional organization that either chooses one principle over its apparent opposite or adopts an engineering perspective that optimizes something between opposites. The knowledge organization, in contrast, synthesizes opposites into something unique and new.
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U2 - 10.1007/978-81-322-1560-8_7
DO - 10.1007/978-81-322-1560-8_7
M3 - Chapter
AN - SCOPUS:84992607856
SN - 9788132215592
SP - 113
EP - 135
BT - The Flexible Enterprise
ER -