The Modern Firm: Organizational Design for Performance and Growth (Clarendon Lectures in Management Studies)Business firms around the world are experimenting with new organizational designs, changing their formal architectures, their routines and processes, and their corporate cultures as they seek to improve their current performance and their growth prospects. In the process they are changing the scope of their business operations, redrawing their organization charts, redefining the allocation of decision making authority and responsibility, revamping the