Rodrigo Magalhaes

Organization Design and Engineering: Co-existence, Co-operation or Integration Rodrigo Magalhaes

Marc Notes: The key aim of the volume of original papers on the theory and practice of ODE featured in 'Organization Design and Engineering' is to contribute towards overcoming the academic challenges stated above. A secondary aim is to launch the debate about ODE, including whether or not the debate itself is warranted. Biographical Note: 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. Table of Contents: IntroductionPART I: STRATEGIZING ODE1. Organization Design and Engineering for Dynamic Fit: Toward Analytic Principles, Methods and Tools2. Structural Couplings of Organizational Design and Organizational Engineering3. An Explanatory Framework of the Dynamics of ODE founded upon Service, Identity and IT InfrastructurePART II: MODELING ODE4. The Unifying Role of Enterprise Engineering5. Using Ontologies for Integrated Knowledge Management in Organizational Design and Engineering6. Organizational Self-Awareness: a Matter of ValuePART III: IMPLEMENTING ODE7. A Framework for Evidence-based and Inductive Design8. Exploring the Potential of the Axiomatic Approach for Organizational Design PART IV: EDUCATING FOR ODE9. Preparing Future IST Professionals for ODE: an Examination of Courses in IST Degree Programmes Publisher Marketing: 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.