How Long to Read The Network Challenge (Chapter 11)

How Long Does it Take to Read The Network Challenge (Chapter 11)?

It takes the average reader and 45 minutes to read The Network Challenge (Chapter 11) by Jan W. Rivkin

Assuming a reading speed of 250 words per minute. Learn more

Description

Managers often must make decisions that depend on decisions in other parts of the organization. These interactions create a network of interdependent choices and make strategizing difficult. In this chapter, the authors explore the intersection between organizing and strategizing. Motivated by real examples that run contrary to conventional wisdom, the authors examine how firms organize themselves to strategize well. In particular, they examine “premature lock-in”--how a firm’s strategizing efforts can become stuck in a web of conflicting constraints prematurely, before managers have explored a wide enough range of possibilities. A key role of organizing is to free strategizing efforts and encourage broad search. At the same time, organizing must ensure that strategizing efforts stabilize after the firm discovers an effective set of choices. Balancing search and stability, the authors argue, is a central challenge of organizing. They explore this challenge with an agent-based simulation that shows (1) how a change in organizational structure[md]for example, a shift from decentralization to integration[md]may reflect not a reversal of early mistakes but an effective sequence of organizing; and (2) why firms may benefit from unnecessary overlap between departments. They conclude that a period of decentralization and unnecessary overlap can be seen as organizational mechanisms to ensure the broad, early search that a firm needs in order to cope with interactions among strategic decisions.

How long is The Network Challenge (Chapter 11)?

The Network Challenge (Chapter 11) by Jan W. Rivkin is 45 pages long, and a total of 11,475 words.

This makes it 15% the length of the average book. It also has 14% more words than the average book.

How Long Does it Take to Read The Network Challenge (Chapter 11) Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 1 hour and 2 minutes to read The Network Challenge (Chapter 11) aloud.

What Reading Level is The Network Challenge (Chapter 11)?

The Network Challenge (Chapter 11) is suitable for students ages 8 and up.

Note that there may be other factors that effect this rating besides length that are not factored in on this page. This may include things like complex language or sensitive topics not suitable for students of certain ages.

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