Henk W. Volberda
- Published in print:
- 1999
- Published Online:
- October 2011
- ISBN:
- 9780198295952
- eISBN:
- 9780191685163
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780198295952.003.0055
- Subject:
- Business and Management, Strategy, Organization Studies
The management challenge of flexibility may be observed through looking into the managerial repertoire of flexible capabilities. Since increasing the speed and variety of managerial capabilities ...
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The management challenge of flexibility may be observed through looking into the managerial repertoire of flexible capabilities. Since increasing the speed and variety of managerial capabilities proves to be a challenging goal, the firm will not be able to fully utilize its flexible capabilities without an appropriate organizational design. We thus examine flexibility's organization design challenge through identifying the organizational conditions that are necessary for utilizing the flexibility mix. Since the potential for flexibility is determined by the existing organization design, there is a need to determine whether redesigning the organizational conditions is required. The focus of this chapter is thus rooted on examining the organizational barriers to flexibility.Less
The management challenge of flexibility may be observed through looking into the managerial repertoire of flexible capabilities. Since increasing the speed and variety of managerial capabilities proves to be a challenging goal, the firm will not be able to fully utilize its flexible capabilities without an appropriate organizational design. We thus examine flexibility's organization design challenge through identifying the organizational conditions that are necessary for utilizing the flexibility mix. Since the potential for flexibility is determined by the existing organization design, there is a need to determine whether redesigning the organizational conditions is required. The focus of this chapter is thus rooted on examining the organizational barriers to flexibility.
Robert F. Lewis
- Published in print:
- 2009
- Published Online:
- March 2014
- ISBN:
- 9781604732078
- eISBN:
- 9781604732177
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- University Press of Mississippi
- DOI:
- 10.14325/mississippi/9781604732078.001.0001
- Subject:
- Sociology, Sport and Leisure
This book follows Major League Baseball (MLB)’s history as a sport, a domestic monopoly, a neocolonial power, and an international business. MLB’s challenge has been to market its popular mythology ...
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This book follows Major League Baseball (MLB)’s history as a sport, a domestic monopoly, a neocolonial power, and an international business. MLB’s challenge has been to market its popular mythology as the national pastime with pastoral, populist roots while addressing the management challenges of competing with other sports and diversions in a burgeoning global economy. The author argues that MLB for years abused its legal insulation and monopoly status through arrogant treatment of its fans and players and static management of its business. As its privileged position eroded in the face of increased competition from other sports and union resistance, it awakened to its perilous predicament and began aggressively courting athletes and fans at home and abroad. Using a detailed marketing analysis and applying the principles of a “smart power” model, the author assesses MLB’s progression as a global business brand that continues to appeal to a consumer’s sense of an idyllic past in the midst of a fast-paced, and often violent, present.Less
This book follows Major League Baseball (MLB)’s history as a sport, a domestic monopoly, a neocolonial power, and an international business. MLB’s challenge has been to market its popular mythology as the national pastime with pastoral, populist roots while addressing the management challenges of competing with other sports and diversions in a burgeoning global economy. The author argues that MLB for years abused its legal insulation and monopoly status through arrogant treatment of its fans and players and static management of its business. As its privileged position eroded in the face of increased competition from other sports and union resistance, it awakened to its perilous predicament and began aggressively courting athletes and fans at home and abroad. Using a detailed marketing analysis and applying the principles of a “smart power” model, the author assesses MLB’s progression as a global business brand that continues to appeal to a consumer’s sense of an idyllic past in the midst of a fast-paced, and often violent, present.
