Building the Flexible Firm

How do managers reconcile the conflicting forces of change and stability? How do they promote order and control, while having to learn to innovate and respond? Based on an Igor Ansoff Award-winning study and now available for the first time in paperback, Henk Volberda's book shows how for many firms flexibility has become the new strategic challenge. On the basis of recent developments in strategy and organization theory, extensive interviews with practitioners, and detailed case studies of flexibility improvement within large corporations, he develops a strategic framework which will help managers to organize for flexibility.