The best way to organize a firm is discussed by the faculty at the Wharton School. Sections of the book cover various ways firms can compete in the changing world market owing to innovations in the US and new organizing principles developed by Japan.

FOREWORD ; ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS ; PARTICIPANTS ; TABLE OF CONTENTS ; 1. Introduction: redesigning the Firm ; I. BOUNDRIES, NETWORKS AND CORPORATE CONTROL ; 2. The Anomolies of Corporate Governance ; 3. Sustainable Competitive Advantage Through Alliance ; 4. Supplier and Buyer Networks ; II. SPEED, VARIETY AND FLEXIBILITY ; 5. Product Innovation in Mature Firms ; 6. Strategies for Product Variety: Lessons from the Auto Industry ; 7. How Control Systems can Support Organizational Flexibility ; III. FORM, SPACE AND TIME ; 8. The Design and Redisign of the Organizational Form ; 9. Organizing the Global Multinational Firm ; 10. How Firms Adapt to Evolving Markets ; IV. SUMMARY ; 11. Modularity and Permeability as Principles of Design

" "Provides Wharton's unique perspective on contemporary business research and management thinking."--Booklist "New technologies, new models of work, and new businesses demand that we rethink our organizations. This very intelligent book points the way."--James Champy, Chairman, CSC Index and co-author, Re-engineering the Corporation and Re-engineering Management "This book takes a unique, interdisciplinary look at the organizational issues facing companies living in today's fast-changing world. The insights it provides will help insure successful organizational redesign and future competitiveness."--Lewis E. Platt, Hewlett Packard Company

Edward H. Bowman is Reginald H. Jones Professor of Corporate Management and Director of the Reginald H. Jones Center of the Wharton School, at the University of Pennsylvania. Bruce Kogut is a Professor of Management at the Wharton School and Co-Director of the Reginald H. Jones Center.