Learning to Design Organizations and Learning from Designing Them
指出组织研究的学术焦点已偏离组织对成员和社会的影响，而研究组织设计的努力有助于理解并改进组织。特刊中的论文描述了多个具体的设计案例，说明变革动机与结果。
The academic focus of organization studies has unfortunately drifted over the years from the issues that organizations pose for their members and their societies, and the issues that confront people who seek to improve organizations. However, studies of efforts to design organizations can help us to better understand organizations and may also help us to improve them. The papers in this special issue of Organization Science describe several specific efforts to design organizations, telling why people wanted to make changes and what happened when people sought to make them.