Jay Galbraith
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[edit] Biography
Jay Galbraith is Professor Emeritus at the International Institute for Management Development (IMD) in Lausanne, Switzerland. He is also a Senior Research Scientist at the Center for Effective Organizations at the University of Southern California. An internationally recognized expert on organization design, Jay Galbraith helps major global corporations create capability for competing in the next century. His work focuses on the areas of organizational design, change, and development; strategy and organization at the corporate, business unit, and international levels; and international partnering arrangements including joint ventures and network-type organizations. Dr. Galbraith consults regularly with international clients in the United States, Europe, Asia and South America. His book, Designing the Global Corporation, describes how leading multinational corporations address the demands of their increasingly global customers to provide solutions, not just products.
[edit] Publications
His recently revised book, Designing Organizations: An Executive Briefing on Strategy, Structure and Process, (Jossey-Bass, 2001) is a balanced perspective of organization design principles, structures and processes written for the executive manager. Jay Galbraith, along with Diane Downey and Amy Kates, have produced a long-awaited workbook for organization designers entitled Designing Dynamic Organizations (Amacom, 2001). Tomorrow’s Organization: Crafting Winning Capabilities in a Dynamic World (Jossey-Bass, 1998), was a cooperative project with Sue Mohrman, Edward E. Lawler III and the Center for Effective Organizations. It is a solution-oriented guidebook for creating organizations capable of competing in the next century. Competing with Flexible Lateral Organizations, (Addison-Wesley, 1994) explores management through less hierarchical team structures. Galbraith’s award-winning book, Organizing for the Future (Jossey-Bass, 1993), is a compilation of ten years of research done by the Center for Effective Organizations. Prior publications include Strategy Implementation: The Role of Structure and Process (with Rob Kazanjian, West Publishing, 1986); "Designing the Innovative Organization" in the journal, Organization Dynamics (Winter 1982); "Human Resources and Organization Planning" in Human Resource Management; Designing Complex Organizations (Addison-Wesley, 1973); and Organization Design (Addison-Wesley, 1977). Dr. Galbraith’s recent working papers include: “Managing the New Complexity”, “The Front-Back Organization: a New Organizational Hybrid”, “Designing a Reconfigurable Organization” and "Organizing Around the Customer."
