New Organizational Forms, Controls, and Institutions

Maria Carmela Annosi is Assistant Professor at the Management Studies Group of the School of Social Sciences at Wageningen University, The Netherlands. She received her PhD at KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden, and has been a Visiting Scholar at Rotterdam School of Management, Erasmus University, Netherlands. Fellow in Management at LUISS Guido Carli University, Italy, her research interests include knowledge and innovation management.  Federica Brunetta is Assistant Professor at the Department of Business and Management, LUISS Guido Carli University, Italy. She received a PhD from the Catholic University of Sacred Heart, Italy, and has been a Visiting Scholar at the University of Michigan’s Ross School of Business, USA. Her research interests include strategy and management of innovation.

• 1. Introduction.- 2. Institutions and Organizations: The Role of Institutional Actors.- 3. External Institutional Pressures.- 4.  New Organizational Forms.- 5. Institutions and the Role of Organizational Controls.- 6. Linking Organizational Control and Organizational Learning: Theory.- 7. Linking Organizational Control and Organizational Learning: Research Approach and Methodology.- 8. Linking Organizational Controls and Organizational Learning: Evidences.- Chapter 9. Managerial Challenges, Avenues for Research and Conclusions.