InhaltsangabeTheoretical and Practical Issues.- The Configurational Approach to Organization Design: Four Recommended Initiatives.- The Contingency Theory of Organizational Design: Challenges and Opportunities.- FIT, Contingency, and Configuration.- Examining the Relationship Between Trust and Control in Organizational Design.- Structural Limitations in Organizational Design.- The Many Faces of Fit.- The Fit Between National Cultures, Organizing and Managing.- Design and Performance.- Organizational Design, Learning, and the Market Value of the Firm.- New Developments in Contingency Fit Theory.- Organization Design Constraints on Strategy and Performance.- Action Leadership, Multi-Contingency Theory and Fit.- The Dynamics of Adaptation and Change.- Management and Genghis Khan: Lessons for Multinational Business Enterprises.- Designing Firms for Knowledge Acquisition and Absorptive Capacity.- Models of Change, Organizational Redesign, and the Adoption of Web Technologies.- Governance Channels and Organizational Design at General Electric: 1950-2001.

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