Organizing for Flexibility: Addressing Dynamic Capabilities and Organization Design

NP (Niels) van der Weerdt; Henk Volberda; E Verwaal; M Stienstra

doi:10.1007/978-1-4614-1284-7

Organizing for Flexibility: Addressing Dynamic Capabilities and Organization Design

NP (Niels) van der Weerdt
, Henk Volberda
, E Verwaal
, M Stienstra

Department of Strategic Management and Entrepreneurship

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The increasingly dynamic nature of organizational environments has led the research community to study organizational flexibility. Although the research literature stresses the complexity of the organizational flexibility construct, it lacks a comprehensive empirical study addressing the relationships among various dimensions of organizational flexibility. The present paper develops a theoretical framework specifying the linkages between types of flexibility and organization design characteristics. We argue for a hierarchical structure with increasing levels of flexibility and supporting organizational design. The theoretical framework is linked to observables based on a dataset of 3,259 respondents and provides strong support for the specified statistical model.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Collaborative Communities of Firms: Purpose, Process, and Design
Editors	Anne Bollingtoft, Lex Donaldson, George P. Huber, Dorthe D. Hakonsson, Charles C. Snow
Place of Publication	Heidelberg
Publisher	Springer-Verlag
Pages	105-125
Number of pages	21
ISBN (Print)	9781461412847
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-1284-7
Publication status	Published - 2012

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van der Weerdt, NP., Volberda, H., Verwaal, E., & Stienstra, M. (2012). Organizing for Flexibility: Addressing Dynamic Capabilities and Organization Design. In A. Bollingtoft, L. Donaldson, G. P. Huber, D. D. Hakonsson, & C. C. Snow (Eds.), Collaborative Communities of Firms: Purpose, Process, and Design (pp. 105-125). Springer-Verlag. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-1284-7

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van der Weerdt, NP, Volberda, H, Verwaal, E & Stienstra, M 2012, Organizing for Flexibility: Addressing Dynamic Capabilities and Organization Design. in A Bollingtoft, L Donaldson, GP Huber, DD Hakonsson & CC Snow (eds), Collaborative Communities of Firms: Purpose, Process, and Design. Springer-Verlag, Heidelberg, pp. 105-125. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-1284-7

Organizing for Flexibility: Addressing Dynamic Capabilities and Organization Design. / van der Weerdt, NP (Niels); Volberda, Henk; Verwaal, E et al.
Collaborative Communities of Firms: Purpose, Process, and Design. ed. / Anne Bollingtoft; Lex Donaldson; George P. Huber; Dorthe D. Hakonsson; Charles C. Snow. Heidelberg: Springer-Verlag, 2012. p. 105-125.

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