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Building the Flexible Firm: How to Remain Competitive (Paperback)

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  • Paperback: 384 pages
  • Publisher: OUP Oxford; New edition edition (14 Jan 1999)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 0198295952
  • ISBN-13: 978-0198295952
  • Product Dimensions: 23 x 15.6 x 2.2 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 658,729 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)
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"An important addition to our overall understanding of flexibility."


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Managers on Diploma programmes or candidates working towards Level 5 S/NVQs will find that this demanding but insightful book can challenge their thinking about their role in determining organisational flexibility. Centres which offer consultancy services to public and private sector organisations may find that this book opens up a completely new set of opportunities for them in providing services to their clients ... There will be few practitioners who, having read Volberga's thought-provoking analysis, will not feel that meeting the challenge presented by the book has not been worth the effort. (Business Planning )

Volberda's book brings together much that has been written on strategic management thinking over the last thirty or forty years, and doesn't pretend to offer simple solutions to complex problems ... What it does offer is a thorough-going analysis of the nature of flexibility and well worked out programme for action to develop flexibility in organisations. (Business Planning )

A 'must read' for students and scholars in Strategic Management who desire a comprehensive review and synthesis of the extant literature on organizational flexibility and adaptivity. (Organization Studies )

An important addition to our overall understanding of flexibility. (Technology Analysis & Strategic Management )

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5.0 out of 5 stars Mastering the agility/stability paradox in turbulent markets, 25 Jul 1998
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This exceptional book presents an in-depth, scholarly examination of flexible organizations. It provides a framework (or strategic approach) to guide decision makers in developing an organization able to quickly adapt to hyper-competitive challenges. The author shows that to be successful, organizations require a paradoxical balance between flexibility (viewed as the managerial task) and sufficient stability to exploit change (seen as the organization design task). In other words, firms need to balance creativity, innovation, and speed with clarity of focus, coordination and control. This is an extraordinarily thoughtful work that delves deeply into this complex strategic challenge. It includes a comprehensive questionnaire for measuring the environment and the organization in terms of turbulence, flexibility and other dimensions. Highly recommended to all executives engaged in organizational design and strategic planning, and who are willing to tackle an intellectually! demanding book that is well worth the effort.
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5.0 out of 5 stars An excellent contribution from Volberda, 10 April 1999
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Based on Igor Ansoff award winning study, this book is an invaluable reference for all executives who are interested in strategy and living organizations of the 21st century.
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