Organization Design and Engineering: Co-Existence, Co-Operation or Integration

In spite of the substantial contributions made by the information systems discipline over the last three or four decades, the problem of the integration of social and technological infrastructures in organizations are still far from being solved. All one needs to do is to think of the number of mishaps, failures and accidents in organizational settings due to information and technology systems that still happens today. The key aim of this volume of original papers on the theory and practice of ODE, Organization Design and Engineering, is to contribute towards overcoming the academic challenges stated above. A secondary aim is to launch a debate about ODE, and whether or not the debate itself is warranted. All of the authors have a substantial track record of research and publishing in information systems (understood as a hybrid discipline sitting at the interface between organization science and computer engineering). The book is a contribution to the discipline of information systems but also is a landmark to be used by both researchers and practitioners in developing a future where the social and the technological infrastructures of organizations are designed (i.e., conceived, implemented and maintained) in fully integrated ways.

Table of Contents:
Introduction PART I: STRATEGIZING ODE 1. Organization Design and Engineering for Dynamic Fit: Toward Analytic Principles, Methods and Tools 2. Structural Couplings of Organizational Design and Organizational Engineering 3. An Explanatory Framework of the Dynamics of ODE founded upon Service, Identity and IT Infrastructure PART II: MODELING ODE 4. The Unifying Role of Enterprise Engineering 5. Using Ontologies for Integrated Knowledge Management in Organizational Design and Engineering 6. Organizational Self-Awareness: a Matter of Value PART III: IMPLEMENTING ODE 7. A Framework for Evidence-based and Inductive Design 8. Exploring the Potential of the Axiomatic Approach for Organizational Design PART IV: EDUCATING FOR ODE 9. Preparing Future IST Professionals for ODE: an Examination of Courses in IST Degree Programmes

About the Author :
Rodrigo Magalhaes is currently Professor of Information Systems and Organization at the Kuwait-Maastricht Business School (KMBS) in Kuwait, where he previously held the post of Academic Director. KMBS is a private graduate school affiliated to the Maastricht School of Management in the Netherlands. He is an active researcher at the Centre for Organization Design and Engineering, INOV, Lisbon and at the Centre for Spacial and Organizational Dynamics, University of Algarve, both in Portugal.