In this context R. Miles and C. Snow :
* discuss concept of fit.
* describe the external fit between the firm and its environment, and the internal fit of organization structure, management systems, and managerial ideology to a chosen strategy.
* discuss the companies (such as Carnegie Steel, GM, Sears, Roebuck, HP, and TRW) that pioneered the major organizational forms that have appeared over the past hundred years or so.
* discuss today's successful companies (such as GE, Wal-Mart, and Rubbermaid).
* discuss organizational failure and its major causes, identifying two generic types of failure.
* introduce and explore in detail the network organization and its three main variations : the stable, dynamic, and internal network as the 21st century's organization model.
* discuss mechanisms by which required fit is achieved at all three levels of the network form : across the entire network organization, among network firms in activated organizations, and within each of the specific network firms (such as Nike, Dell, Novell, and ABB).
* identify the forces pushing managers toward a new philosophy of management (human investment model).
* discuss companies that are struggling to redesign themselves-cutting costs, downsizing, bringing in new management teams, and so on.
* describe how total redesign may grow more costly in today's fast-paced world.
* illustrate that fit is no longer an idealistic "ought" but an economic "must"-not only within the firm but throughout the network form and the total global economy.
Detailed discussion of the concepts like technological change, cellular units, networks, network of alliances, interorganizational teamwork, spherical organization, shared knowledge see also William Halal's "The Infinite Resource (1998)", and "The New Management (1998)".
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