In this inaugural address the consequences of the new economy (the information economy) for research and education with respect to management and organization are explored. The information economy implies a shift from sociology based organization theory to economic organization theory, with...

A field research, commissioned by the Dutch Foundation for Management Studies, on the state of the application of the concept of business unit-organization (M-form) in the Netherlands, has produced some noteworthy results. Through interviews with 36 organizations, most for-profit companies...

In the literature for strategic management a number of authors have explained in which ways information and communication technology (ICT) is being deployed in the strategy of the firm. In management books and articles in management journals a variety of cases have been described how specific...

In 1992 Kaplan and Norton introduced the balanced scorecard. They related this concept to the strategy map (2004) and a management system of strategy execution (2008). The balanced scorecard is an especially popular instrument with some managers, but is criticized and even abhorred by others....

The traditional policy of most multinational corporations (MNC) with respect to their subsidiary boards was or even still is to reduce these boards through composition, information and superseding these through an integrated management system to the bare local legal requirements and not having...

Chandler’s dictum ‘structure follows strategy… but the market is the common denominator’ during the twentieth century was answered effectively by the one-dimensional multi-divisional organization, both in business as in government. Today’s markets have a dynamic multidimensionality;...

The M-form, in which a corporate parent manages relatively freestanding business units, was the most successful organizational design of the twentieth century. However, contemporary economic conditions call for designs that allow firms to exploit synergies across their business units and on this...

In the economy of the second industrial revolution firms deployed only a limited number of distinct operating models. These are: the functional model, the holding, the multi-product-division, country-division-model, the split-business chain and the Verlag-model. These models implicitly are based...