This book clarifies the application of cybernetic ideas, particularly those of Beer's Viable System Model, to organizational diagnosis and design. Readers learn to appreciate the relevance of seeing the systemic coherence of the world. The book argues that many of the problems we experience...

"The authors synthesize the existing interdisciplinary quantitative evidence on organizational design and provide a new empirical framework to extend our understanding of the determinants of organizational design, its evolution and a firm's performance."--Jacket