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Inventing the Organizations of the 21st Century
by Thomas W. Malone, Robert Laubacher and Michael S. Scott Morton (eds)	ISBN:026263273x
The MIT Press 2003 (433 pages)
This report on a five-year multidisciplinary research initiative includes 20 articles examining the goals that animate the initiative, which go beyond pure profit to reflect the human values we want the organizations of the twenty-first century to serve.

Table of Contents
	Inventing the Organizations of the 21st Century
	Part I - Introduction
	Chapter 1	-	Inventing the Organizations of the 21st Century
	Part II - What Is Changing?
	Chapter 2	-	The Boundaries of the Firm Revisited
	Chapter 3	-	Is Empowerment Just a Fad? Control, Decision Making, and IT
	Chapter 4	-	Beyond Computation—Information Technology, Organizational Transformation, and Business Performance
	Chapter 5	-	The Dawn of the E-Lance Economy
	Chapter 6	-	Two Scenarios for 21st Century Organizations—Shifting Networks of Small Firms or All-Encompassing "Virtual Countries" ?
	Chapter 7	-	The Interesting Organizations Project—Digitalization of the 21st Century Firm
	Part III - What Can You do About It?
	Chapter 8	-	The Delta Model—Adaptive Management for a Changing World
	Chapter 9	-	Clockspeed-based Strategies for Supply Chain Design
	Chapter 10	-	Tools for Inventing Organizations—Toward a Handbook of Organizational Processes
	Chapter 11	-	Inventing Organizations with the Process Handbook—Excerpts from a Learning History
	Chapter 12	-	An Improvisational Model for Change Management—The Case of Groupware Technologies
	Chapter 13	-	The Comparative Advantage of X-Teams
	Chapter 14	-	Eight Imperatives for the New IT Organization
	Part IV - What do You Want in the First Place?
	Chapter 15	-	What Do We Really Want? A Manifesto for the Organizations of the 21st Century
	Chapter 16	-	Building a New Social Contract at Work—A Call to Action
	Chapter 17	-	Retreat of the Firm and the Rise of Guilds—The Employment Relationship in an Age of Virtual Business
	Chapter 18	-	Unexpected Connections—Considering Employees' Personal Lives Can Revitalize Your Business
	Chapter 19	-	Innovating our Way to the Next Industrial Revolution
	Part V - Conclusion
	Chapter 20	-	Prospects for the New Century
	List of Contributors
	Index
	List of Figures
	List of Tables
	List of Sidebars