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Organizational Change

Rating 3.6
Word count
90K words
Chapters
58
ISBN
9787516429020

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Summary

As companies pursue innovation and growth driven by new technologies and new demands, organization is a critical link. The success or failure of organizational management can even determine a company's fate to some extent. Organization is the cornerstone for realizing a vision and executing strategy, the balancer for responding to change and seeking transformation, and the driving force for entering new domains and moving toward the future.

Since its founding, Tsinghua Business Review has treated "organization" as a topic of special focus, continuously planning related themes and publishing related articles. The decade-plus since the journal's founding can be described as the most complex and volatile decade in the business world—what people frequently call the "VUCA era." Such a shifting business environment has brought earth-shaking changes to organizational structures, organizational forms, and organizational capabilities alike. Over the past decade or more, Tsinghua Business Review has published a large number of articles describing and documenting these changes. Some analyze new developments through classic organizational change theory, clarifying "the appearance of change" through "the essence of the unchanged"; some build on new developments to extend classic theory, giving it broader applicability; and some distill new theories and methods from new developments, offering new practical strategies and action guidance.

Given space limitations, the editors have selected several representative articles on "organizational change." These articles cover the aspects above; their intellectual forward-looking quality makes them relevant for effectiveness rather than timeliness, and their detailed cases and accessible language make them easier for readers to accept and understand.

Editor's review

Organizational Change, compiled by the editorial board of Tsinghua Business Review, is not a single-author monograph but a collection of selected articles from this authoritative management journal. This determines the book's core strength: **diversity of perspectives and strong practical relevance**. It brings together insights from top experts and observers in academia and business, offering multidimensional, systematic thinking and solutions for the organizational challenges Chinese companies face in the new economic environment.

The book's value first lies in its **clear problem orientation**. It does not stop at general discussion of change theory but delves into the specific dilemmas organizations face in agile, flat, platform-based, and ecosystem-oriented transformation in the digital age—how large companies can break bureaucratic inertia, how traditional organizations can activate individual creativity, and the assessment and incentive challenges under new organizational forms. Each article is like a precise cross-section, revealing the texture of a key dimension of change.

Second, the book's **content is markedly hybrid in nature**, combining frontier theoretical frameworks with grounded case analysis. Readers can encounter classic or emerging management models such as the Yang Triangle of organizational capability and symbiotic organizations, gaining systematic cognitive upgrades; they can also review in depth the practices of many local benchmark companies such as Huawei, Alibaba, Haier, and Xiaomi, gaining actionable ideas. This "theory plus practice" arrangement makes the book neither as abstruse as a purely academic work nor as shallow as a scattered collection of cases.

For managers, the book is more like a **"tool manual" for organizational diagnosis and change**. It helps readers build a framework for examining their own organization's health, identify the root causes of rigidity and inefficiency, and offers a package of change ideas spanning strategy, structure, culture, and talent. Although the articles come from different authors, the editorial selection of Tsinghua Business Review ensures content quality and thematic focus, and the overall logic is coherent.

It should be noted that, as an article collection, some viewpoints may overlap slightly or differ across chapters, which instead gives readers room for critical thinking. Overall, this is an excellent work closely attuned to China's management reality, insightful and highly practical, especially suitable for business decision-makers and senior and middle managers seeking a breakthrough amid the wave of change.

Who it's for

A good fit for

  • Company founders, CEOs, and core decision-makers, and managers seeking systematic organizational upgrading solutions
  • Professionals and department heads in human resources and organization development (OD)
  • Business school students, researchers, and consultants with a strong interest in modern organizational management and corporate transformation
  • Middle managers and team leaders in fast-changing industries facing team expansion or transformation challenges

Not a good fit for

  • Readers expecting a monograph with a rigorous personal theoretical system by a single author
  • Readers seeking only entry-level, quick-fix management tips and unwilling to engage in deep thinking

Reading tips

  1. Adopt a "problem–search–compare" reading approach: first consider your own company's specific organizational challenges, then find and read closely the articles in the table of contents that address related issues
  2. Compare different experts' discussions of the same topic (such as platform organizations or incentive mechanisms) to form your own independent judgment
  3. After reading, try using the book's analytical frameworks to sketch a brief "change path draft" for your own organization, turning knowledge into a starting point for action

About the publisher

Enterprise Management Publishing House China · Founded in 1979

Enterprise Management Publishing House focuses on the field of economics and management publishing, with titles spanning common categories such as inspirational growth, management, food, and examinations. Based on the 317 books in the database, representative titles include Dale Carnegie's The Scrolls (Authoritative Collector's Edition), Liu Chengyuan's Lean Thinking: How Lean Is Implemented in China, Zhong Jiyin's series on Boards of Directors and Corporate Governance, Cao Xibo's New Handbook for Public Speaking Training, Zhu Yutong's Thirteen Marketing Strategies for Chinese Brands and Adoption Methods: Solving Eight Major Local Marketing Problems, and Guan Cha by authors such as Xiu Shang, Liao Xinlin, and Li Xiaorui. Its publishing direction covers management theory, corporate governance, and local marketing practice, while extending to personal growth and language training. Its author resources include researchers and practitioners in economics and management. Public information on its publishing features and series system is limited; the above is based only on the book information in the database.

Contents

  1. 版权信息
  2. 序言
  3. 1 共益企业——使命驱动的第四代组织管理模式
  4. 公司使命理论的演化
  5. 共益企业:使命驱动型企业的新风向
  6. 如何成为共益企业
  7. 共益企业与第四代组织管理模式
  8. 2 如何免缴管理税?自组织的实践
  9. 对传统权力结构的颠覆
  10. 自组织的三种实现机制
  11. 美国晨星公司的自组织实践
  12. 自组织在中国的实践
  13. 向自组织迈进
  14. 3 组织韧性的机制与过程
  15. 逆境来临之前的意识与准备
  16. 逆境之中的应对机制与过程
  17. 逆境过后的结果与状态
  18. 小结
  19. 4 数字时代的“高韧性”组织:人单合一
  20. 四重瓶颈:挑战“组织韧性”的现实场景
  21. 底层逻辑:人是目的
  22. 切入点:“大战略”VS“小场景”
  23. 再架构:“弹性体”VS“无机料”
  24. 5 虑深通敏 与时偕行——三台组织架构如何应对危机
  25. 风起于青蘋之末
  26. 如何在实践中推进三台架构建设
  27. 6 启动双元组织的危机叙事方法
  28. 自然本能定见反对双元组织
  29. 双元组织需要双重定见
  30. 用危机经历植入探索的定见
  31. “探索定见”与“利用定见”是怎样统一的
  32. 作为一种组织境界的双元组织
  33. 结论:虚拟真的实践
  34. 7 生态型组织:物联网时代的管理新范式
  35. 没有敏捷力,就没有未来
  36. 生物适应性:衡量组织的适应与开放
  37. 信任:生态组织绩效与繁荣的基石
  38. 管理即决策
  39. 平台分权制:生态组织的新范式
  40. 8 天生具备,还是后天培养?——组织中的即兴能力开发
  41. 组织中的即兴能力
  42. 组织如何开发即兴能力
  43. 为即兴能力开发创造支持性的组织环境
  44. 对中国企业的启示
  45. 9 平台组织:热潮中的反思
  46. 10 网络时代的组织学习之道
  47. 价值观体系
  48. 非常规的人才培养模式
  49. 基于场景的组织学习
  50. 自主性组织学习与人才培养
  51. 11 平台组织:迎接全员创新的时代
  52. 建立平台组织的管理思维
  53. 构建平台组织的运行模式
  54. 迎接全员创新时代
  55. 12 组织再认识:组织,还是组织过程
  56. 理论:学会另眼看组织
  57. 案例:体会组织建构的过程
  58. 启示:中国企业组织的管理与变革

FAQ

Is this book a theory book or a case book?
It is a typical combination of theory and practice. The book consists of multiple independent articles, each usually containing a clear theoretical framework or viewpoint, supported by specific corporate cases for explanation and argumentation, aiming to use theory to explain practice and use practice to enrich theory.
Is the content outdated? Which corporate cases are mainly involved?
The articles are selected from recent highlights of Tsinghua Business Review and explore enduring core issues such as digital transformation and ecosystem building, with strong forward-looking and timely value. The cases are wide-ranging, covering both giants that continue to transform, such as Huawei, Alibaba, Tencent, and Haier, and representative companies pursuing organizational innovation in new fields.
Is this book of great reference value to managers of small and medium-sized enterprises?
Yes, significantly. Although some cases come from large companies, the organizational principles they reveal, the challenges they face (such as lack of vitality and communication barriers), and the change directions they propose (such as agility, empowerment, and cultural reshaping) are universal. SME managers can draw on the core ideas and adapt them to their own scale and stage of development.

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The Editorial Department of Tsinghua Business Review is the editorial and writing team behind Tsinghua Business Review, appearing under a collective byline in books associated with the journal. Public information about it is limited, and its specific staffing and operating details are not widely known. Judging from the three works held in the collection, the department focuses on organizing articles around core management topics such as organizational change and leadership, and on compiling journal content into selected collections such as Management Outlook: Selected Articles from Tsinghua Business Review 2021 for systematic reading. Its writing and editing style is issue-oriented and practice-focused, placing it among management publications aimed at managers and readers interested in management practice, and it is often classified under management and classic works.

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