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Beyond Competitive Advantage
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Beyond Competitive Advantage

by Todd Zenger
May 2016
Intermediate to advanced content levelIntermediate to advanced
224 pages
4h 7m
English
Harvard Business Review Press
Content preview from Beyond Competitive Advantage
One of my first teaching experiences was with an evening class of MBA students, at least half of whom were older than I was and all of whom had a lot more real-world experience.1 The evening’s topic was organization design, specifically, the choice to centralize or decentralize—a choice with profound implications for the structure of incentives, communication patterns, and decision rights. We discussed how decentralized designs promote innovation, motivation, and autonomous action, while centralized designs support control, efficiency, and coordination. My central (rather predictable) message was about the need to “design for fit”—to match organizational structure to strategy, an idea that ...
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ISBN: 9781633690011