AMOD Review
Read what the Association for the Management of Organizational Design (AMOD) has to say about OrgCon®.
"...[OrgCon®] is adaptable for both large and small organizations and the output, with the understanding of the organizational design professional, will be meaningful and useful for the client." (Keith, 1998)
Book Review
"OrgCon® provides the reader a powerful tool for diagnosis and design. It aids the design process by asking the designer questions about the current organization, the contingency factors, and then offers recommendations on the design, the configuration and the properties....With the expert system and the philosophies behind it, researchers in computational organization theory can now have one more direction to tackle the complex issues of organizations in a fast changing world."
Zhiang Lin
University of Texas at Dallas, Richardson
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Organisation Studies
[OrgCon®] together with this book and the cases included, provides a managerial toolkit for the business person who wants to improve their organization...
JASSS Book Review
"Used in this way, the model would assist students to engage with the widely recognised factors that should be considered when designing organisations and begin to build an appreciation of their relative contribution and importance to the design judgement. Use in such a context also allows the limitations of the theory embedded within the model to be critically examined and permits the broader literature to be considered by way of context"