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Chapter 08

Go to http://www.businessweek.com/bwdaily/dnflash/content/may2007/db20070514_257839.htm and http://www.economist.com/obituary/displaystory.cfm?story_id=9184105 for reflections on the life and work of Alfred Chandler, pioneering business historian and discoverer of the M-form organization.

Go to http://www.tinyvital.com/Misc/Lawsburo.htm for some intelligently humorous ‘laws’ about bureaucracies – that give a flavour for the kind of criticism that this aspect of organizing attracts. For a longer and more considered critique, including a formal definition of bureaucracy, see: http://www.busting-bureaucracy.com/condense/debucond.pdf

Visit this site for a summary of Max Weber’s work on bureaucracy: www.humanities.mq.edu.au/Ockham/y64l09.html

Two good articles that discuss the development of new organizational forms, and how IT is affecting them, can be downloaded free from: http://www.nicolaifoss.com/text/Introduction%20-%20New%20Organizational%20Forms%20-%20Critical%20Perspectives.pdf and http://orgsci.highwire.org/cgi/reprint/18/5/749.pdf

For an applied analysis of game theory and contract setting in the UK utilities industries see: http://faculty.london.edu/mottaviani/ECLR.pdf

Go to http://www.worldbusinesslive.com/article/654684/how-maintain-unenforceable-contracts/ for an interesting article with recent examples of how relational contracts are important in manufacturing.

Go to http://www.1000ventures.com/business_guide/crosscuttings/culture_corporate.html, http://www.management-issues.com/display_page.asp?section=opinion&id=3328, and http://www.auxillium.com/culture.shtml for items and links about organizational culture, written for practising managers trying for a deeper understanding of the topic.

For Aron’s (2006) article on HCL and Shiv Nadar see: http://knowledge.wharton.upenn.edu/article.cfm?articleid=1563

Companies mentioned in the chapter also include Si.Sac (website in Italian, and still under construction, at the time of writing), Leica, Acer, HCL Technologies, and Google (see also http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/10/20/AR2006102001461.html), Google’s Management Team in 2006 is found at: http://www.google.com/corporate/execs.html. More information on the company’s financial performance can be found at: http://investor.google.com/fin_data.html