Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Part 1: The Organization and Its Environment -- Chapter 1: Organizations and Organizational Effectiveness -- Chapter 2: Stakeholders, Managers, and Ethics -- Chapter 3: Organizing in a Changing Global Environment -- Part 2: Organizational Design -- Chapter 4: Basic Challenges of Organizational Design -- Chapter 5: Designing Organizational Structure: Authority and Control -- Chapter 6: Designing Organizational Structure: Specialization and Coordination -- Chapter 7: Creating and Managing Organizational Culture -- Chapter 8: Organizational Design and Strategy in a Changing Global Environment -- Chapter 9: Organizational Design, Competences, and Technology -- Part 3: Organizational Change -- Chapter 10: Types and Forms of Organizational Change -- Chapter 11: Organizational Transformations: Birth, Growth, Decline, and Death -- Chapter 12: Decision Making, Learning, Knowledge Management, and Information Technology -- Chapter 13: Innovation, Intrapreneurship, and Creativity -- Chapter 14: Managing Conflict, Power, and Politics.

For undergraduate and graduate courses in Organization Theory, Organizational Design, and Organizational Change/Development. Business is changing at break-neck speed so managers must be increasingly active in reorganizing their firms to gain a competitive edge. Organizational Theory, Design, and Change continues to provide students with the most up-to-date and contemporary treatment of the way managers attempt to increase organizational effectiveness. By making organizational change the centerpiece in a discussion of organizational theory and design, this text stands apart from other books on the market.