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Acknowledgments | |
Introduction | p. 1 |
Inventing the Organizations of the 21st Century | p. 3 |
What is Changing? | p. 15 |
Why Are Things Changing? | p. 23 |
The Boundaries of the Firm Revisited | p. 25 |
Is Empowerment Just a Fad? Control, Decision Making, and IT | p. 49 |
Beyond Computation: Information Technology, Organizational Transformation and Business Performance | p. 71 |
How Are Things Changing? | p. 101 |
The Dawn of the E-Lance Economy | p. 103 |
Two Scenarios for 21st Century Organizations: Shifting Networks of Small Firms or All-Encompassing "Virtual Countries"? | p. 115 |
The Interesting Organizations Project: Digitalization of the 21st Century Firm | p. 133 |
What Can You Do About It? | p. 161 |
Inventing New Strategies | p. 171 |
The Delta Model: Adaptive Management for a Changing World | p. 173 |
Clockspeed-Based Strategies for Supply Chain Design | p. 205 |
Inventing New Organizations | p. 219 |
Tools for Inventing Organizations: Toward a Handbook of Organizational Processes | p. 221 |
Inventing Organizations with the Process Handbook: Excerpts from a Learning History | p. 251 |
An Improvisational Model for Change Management: The Case of Groupware Technologies | p. 265 |
The Comparative Advantage of X-Teams | p. 283 |
Eight Imperatives for the New IT Organization | p. 297 |
What Do You Want in the First Place? | p. 319 |
What Do We Really Want? A Manifesto for Organizations of the 21st Century | p. 325 |
Building a New Social Contract at Work: A Call to Action | p. 333 |
Retreat of the Firm and the Rise of Guilds: The Employment Relationship in an Age off Virtual Business | p. 353 |
Unexpected Connections: Considering Your Employees' Personal Lives Can Revitalize Your Business | p. 375 |
Innovating Our Way to the Next Industrial Revolution | p. 389 |
Conclusion | p. 413 |
Prospects for the New Century | p. 415 |
List of Contributors | p. 417 |
Index | p. 421 |
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