Firms - like all living systems - must be congruent with aligned with, compatible with their environments, or they will not survive. This text looks at ways in which future firms will need to co-operate with their environments

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This paper introduces and explicates the decision-making paradigm of organizational design. We argue that the domains of existing design paradigms are declining in scope, and that the nature of current and future organizational environments requires use of a design paradigm that responds to the...

This paper describes the nature and design of post-industrial organizations. It begins with an assessment of the popular literature on post-industrial society, and finds that this literature is an inappropriate basis for inferring the nature of post-industrial organizations. Partly as a...

Faced with the ever-accelerating pace of technological change and the restructuring of markets, many firms have been questioning the appropriateness of their own organizational structure and effectiveness. Consequently, we have witnessed much organizational experimentation and the development of...

Faced with the ever-accelerating pace of technological change and the restructuring of markets, many firms have been questioning the appropriateness of their own organizational structure and effectiveness. Consequently, we have witnessed much organizational experimentation and the development of...

An employment service ideally should enable workers to maximize their monetary and psychic job satisfactions and employers to maximize their productivity for each dollar or labor cost. Electronic computers can make their greatest contribution to this effort if they are programmed so as to...

It is commonly believed that the user's cognitive style should be considered in the design of Management Information Systems and Decision Support Systems. In contrast, an examination of the literature and a consideration of some of the broader issues involved in MIS and DSS design lead to the...

This article contains a review of published field and field-like research studies concerned with the development and use of multi-attribute utility models. Since the clients or experimental subjects who participated in these studies were all occupationally experienced in making the utility...