What is the relationship among organizational theory, organizational design and change, and organizational structure and culture?
What is organizational effectiveness? Discuss three approaches to evaluating effectiveness and the problems of each approach.
What is the agency problem? What steps can be taken to solve it?
Why is it important for managers and organizations to behave ethically?
What are the major sources of uncertainty in the environment? Discuss how these sources of uncertainty affect a small biotechnology company and a large carmaker.
According to transaction cost theory, what motivates organizations to form interorganizational linkages? Under what conditions would a company prefer a more formal linkage mechanism to a less formal one?