RAYMOND E. MILES
Raymond E. Miles is Professor Emeritus and former Dean of the Walter A. Haas School of Business at the University of California at Berkeley. He joined the faculty in 1963 after receiving his Ph.D. in Organizational Behavior and Industrial Relations at Stanford University. He served as Dean of the Walter A. Haas School of Business from 1983 to 1990. He has also served as Director of the Institute of Industrial Relations at the University of California, Berkeley and Editor of Industrial Relations. In addition, he served as Associate Dean of the Berkeley Business School and as Chairperson of the Organizational Behavior and Industrial Relations faculty. He has been a visiting professor at the Amos Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth College, the Graduate School of Business at the University of Texas at Austin, the University of Zurich, and other
universities, and a visiting scientist at the Tavistock Institute in London. Professor Miles has been a consultant to numerous private, public, labor and academic organizations across the U.S. and throughout the world. He served on the board of directors of The Union Bank of California and Granite Construction Company. His major books and articles are used in the U.S., Canada, Asia, and Europe.
For the past two decades, Professor Miles' research and writing has focused on the interaction of organizational strategy, structure, and managerial processes. The conceptual framework and organizational typology emerging from his research (done in conjunction with Professor Charles C. Snow of Pennsylvania State University and others) are broadly used and have stimulated a continuing research stream. Professor Miles has linked the research on organizational strategy and design with his earlier work on management theory and philosophy, illustrating parallel patterns of evolution in organizational forms and management theory and examining the extent to which alternative management theories enhance or impede the adoption of various strategies and structures.
Professor Miles' most recent research focuses on advanced forms of organizational design at the corporate and plant level, including collaborative communities of firms, cellular systems, dynamic network structures, and the creation of collaborative communities of firms to enhance entrepreneurial innovation. Such systems demand alternative mechanisms for resource allocation and coordination in complex structures, contingency models for strategic human resources management, and work system designs which utilize surplus human capabilities. The most recent research and writing in this area details the evolution of communities of firms sharing complex, science-
generated knowledge both within and across firm boundaries to create innovative products and services at an enhanced pace and volume across complementary markets. Finally, in line with his continuing interest in industrial relations, Professor Miles is studying the impact of management theory and organization design on the fundamental structure and philosophy of the U.S. industrial relations system.
As a teacher, Professor Miles has been active in the design of new courses and of new pedagogical approaches. He was a founding member of the Organizational Behavior Teaching Society (Berkeley, 1974) and conducted some of the early research on the use of videotape in group development and in classroom settings.
Professor Miles is a Fellow of the Academy of Management and a regular participant in its programs, including its doctoral consortia. He is the author of five books and over fifty articles and chapters. He has lectured in Europe, Asia, Canada, and Latin America, and
several of his books and articles have been translated into Japanese, German and other languages.
Professor Miles received his BA (in Journalism and English) in 1954 and his MBA in 1958 from the University of North Texas where he was an instructor in management from 1958-1960. He served as a pilot in the US Air Force from 1955 to 1958. He has been married to the former Lucile Dustin since 1952 and they have three children and seven grandchildren
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SELECTED PUBLICATIONS
Books
Collaborative Entrepreneurship (with Charles C. Snow and Grant Miles) Palo Alto, Stanford University Press, 2005
Fit, Failure, and the Hall of Fame (with Charles C. Snow), New York, Free press, 1994. Organization By Design: Theory and Practice. (Editor and contributor, with M. Jelinek and J. Litterer. (Plano, Texas: Business Publications, Inc., 1986).
Organization Strategy, Structure, and Process (with Charles C. Snow) (New York: McGraw-Hill, 1978. Japanese Edition (1983). German Edition, (1987) Reissued as a Stanford Business Classic (with new introduction and commentary) Stanford Press, 2003 with Chinese Edition, 2007
Organizational Behavior: Research and Issues. (Editor and contributor, with Strauss, et al.) (Wadsworth, 1976) (IRRA, 1974).
Theories of Management: Implications for Organizational Behavior and Development. (New York: McGraw-Hill, 1975).
Articles and Book Chapters Recent Publications
Articles:
“Lessons Learned, Ignored, Forgotten and Reborn: Organizations and Management 1960 to Today,” Journal of Management Inquiry, 20, March 2011, 4-7
“Organizing Continuous Product Development and Commercialization: The Collaborative Community of Firms Model,” with C. Snow, O. Fjeldstadt, and C.Lettl, Journal of Product Innovation Management, 2011, 28, 3-16.
“Designing Organizations to Meet 21st Century Opportunities and Challenges,” Organization Dynamics, 38, April-June 2010, 93-103.
“The I-Form Organization,”(with Grant Miles, Charles C. Snow, Kirsimarja Blomqvist, and Hector Rocha) California Management Review, Summer, 2009
“The Ideology of Innovation,” (with Grant Miles and Charles C. Snow), Strategic Organization , November, 2007
“Innovation and Management Values,” California Management Review, 50th Anniversary Edition, October, 2007.
“Organization Theory and Supply Chain Management: An Evolving Research Perspective, ” (with Charles C. Snow), Journal of Operations Management, 2007 “Collaborative Entrepreneurship: A Business Model for Continuous Innovation,” (with Grant Miles and Charles C. Snow), Organizational Dynamics, 35, Winter, 2006, 1-11. “A Configurational Approach to the Integration of Strategy and Organization Research,” (with Charles C. Snow and Grant Miles), Strategic Organization, 3, November 2005, 431-439.
Kaser, P.A.W. and Raymond E. Miles, “Understanding Knowledge Activists’ Successes and Failures,” Long Range Planning, 35 (2002) 9-28.
“The Future.org,” Long Range Planning, (with Charles C. Snow and Grant Miles)33, June, 2000, 300-321
“Some Conceptual and Research Barriers to the Utilization of Knowledge,” (with Grant Miles, Vincenzo Perrone, and Leif Edvinnson), California Management Review, Spring, 1998.
“Organizing in the Knowledge Age: Anticipating the Cellular Form,” (with Charles C. Snow, John A. Mathews, Grant Miles, and Henry J. Coleman Jr)., Academy of
Management Executive_ Vol. 11, No. 4, December, 1997, pp 7-24.
“Characteristics of Managerial Careers in the 21st Century,” (with Brent B. Allred and Charles C. Snow), Academy of Management Executive, Vol. 10, No. 4, December, 1996, pp 17-27.
“From Prudential to Sematech: A Lifetime of Organizational Research, Experimentation, and Change -- An Interview with Charles A. “Pat” Waters,” Journal of Management Inquiry, Vol 5, No. 1, March 1996 pp 60-66.
Commentaries:
“Some Comments on the Relevance of Convergence,” Journal of Management Inquiry Vol 6, No. 1, March, 1997
“Some Further (and Future) Thoughts on Practicality and Relevance,” Journal of Management Inquiry, 1996
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Book Chapters:
“The Configurational Approach to Organization Design: Four Recommended Initiatives,” (with Charles C. Snow and Grant Miles), in Burton, et al, Organization Design: The Evolving State-of-the-Art, Springer, 2006, pp. 3-18.
“Cellular Organizations,” (with Charles C. Snow, John A. Mathews, Grant Miles and Henry J. Coleman Jr,), in William Halal and. Kenneth Taylor, Eds., Twenty First Century
Economies, New York, St. Martins Press, Forthcoming,
“Leadership and the Legitimization of Collaboration,” (with Grant Miles), in J. Conger, The Leader's Change Handbook, San Francisco, Jossey Bass, 1998.
“The Spherical Network Organization,” in William E. Halal, ed. The Infinite Resource, San Francisco, Jossey Bass, 1998.
“Good for Practice: An Integrated Theory of the Value of Alternative Organizational Forms,” (with Grant Miles), in H. Thomas and D. O'Neil, eds. Strategic Flexibility: Managing in a Turbulent Environment, New York, John Wiley & Sons, 1998. “Trust in Organizations: A Conceptual FrameworkLinking Organizatonal Forms, Managerial Philosophies and the Opportuntity Costs of Controls,” (with W. E. Douglas Creed), in R. Kramer and T. Tyler, Trust in Organizaions: Frontiers of Theory and Research, Thousand Oaks, Sage, 1996.
“Twenty First Century Careers,” (with Charles C. Snow), in M. Arthur and D. Rousseau, eds. The Boundaryless Career: A New Employment Principle for a New Organizational Era, New York, Oxford University Press, 1996.
SELECTED EARLIER WORKS:
“Organizational Forms and Managerial Philosophies,” (with W.E. Douglas Creed), in B. Staw and L. Cummings, Research in Organizational Behavior, JAI Press, 1995.
“The New Network Firm: A Spherical Structure Built on a Human Investment Philosophy,” (with Charles C. Snow), Organizational Dynamics, Spring 1995.
“Keys to Success in Corporate Redesign,” (with Henry J. Coleman, Jr., and W. E. Douglas Creed), California Management Review, Spring 1995.
“Managing 21st Century Network Organizations” (Charles C. Snow and Henry J. Coleman, Jr.), Organizational Dynamics, Winter 1992.
“Causes of Failure in Network Organizations,” (with Charles C. Snow), California Management Review, Summer 1992.
“Adapting to Technology and Competition: A New Industrial Relations System for the 21st Century,” California Management Review, Winter 1989.
“Business Education in a Changing world: The Berkeley Model,” prepared for the Graduate Admissions Council, Cal Business, Fall 1988
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“An Interview with Dean Raymond E. Miles,” Selections, Graduate Management Admission Council, Spring 1987.
“The Future of Organization Design” (with Mariann Jelinek, Joseph A. Litterer), Organizations by Design Theory & Practice, Second Edition, Spring 1986.
“Organizations: New Concepts for New Forms” (with Charles C. Snow), California Management Review, Spring 1986.
“The Future of Business Education,” California Management Review, Spring 1985. “Designing Strategic Human Resources Systems” (with Charles C. Snow), Organizational Dynamics, Summer 1984.
“Fit, Failure and the Hall of Fame” (with Charles C. Snow), California Management Review, Spring 1984.
“The Role of Strategy in the Development of a General Theory of Organizations” (with Charles C. Snow), Advances in Strategic Management, 2 (1983), 231-259.
“Teaching Organization Theory” (with Alan D. Meyer and Charles C. Snow) in R.D. Friedman, C.L. Cooper, and S.A. Stumpf (eds.), Management Education, John Wiley & Sons, Ltd., 1982.
“The Human Resources Approach to Management: Second Generation Problems,” (with Howard Rosenberg) Organization Dynamics, Winter 1982.
“Governance of Organizations: Leader-Led Roles,” in George W. England, et al. (eds), The Functioning of Complex Organizations (Cambridge, MA: Oelgeschlager, Gunn and Hain, 1981). (Papers read at a conference in Berlin.)
“Toward a Synthesis in Organization Theory” (with Charles C. Snow), in Mariann Jelinek, et al. (eds.), Organizations by Design: Theory and Practice (Plano, TX: Business
Publications, Inc., 1981).
“Organizational Strategy, Structure, and Process,” with C. Snow; A. Meyer; and H. Coleman, Jr., Academy of Management Review, July, 1978
“Organizational-Environment: Concepts and Issues,” Industrial Relations, October 1974 (with Charles C. Snow and Jeffrey Pfeffer).
“Changing Self-Acceptance: Task Groups and Video Tape Feedback or Sensitivity Training,” Small Group Behavior, August 1974 (with Gordon A. Walter).
“Motivation and Management,” in J.W. (ed.), Contemporary Management: Issues and Viewpoints (Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall, 1974) (with Lyman Porter).
“A Factor Analytic Study of Maslow Need Items,” Personnel Psychology, Summer 1971 (with Karlene Roberts and Gordon Walters).
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“Participative Management: Quantity vs. Quality,” California Management Review, Spring 1971 (with J.B. Ritchie).
“Quantity and Quality of Participation as Moderating Variables in the Participative Decision Making Process,” Personnel Psychology, Fall 1970 (with J.B. Ritchie).
“Organizational Leadership, Satisfaction, and Productivity: A Comparative Analysis,” Academy of Management Journal, December 1968 (with Karlene Roberts and L.V. Blankenship).
“Leadership Attitudes of Union Officials,” Industrial Relations, October 1968 (with J.B. Ritchie).
“Organizational Structure and Managerial Decision Behavior.” Administrative Science Quarterly, June 1968 (with L.V. Blankenship).
“Leadership Attitudes Among Public Health Officials,” American Journal of Public Health, December 1966 (with L.W. Porter).
“Leadership Training -- Back to the Classroom,” Personnel, July-August 1966 (with L.W. Porter).
“The Affluent Organization,” Harvard Business Review, May-June 1966.
“Behavioral Properties of Variance Controls,” California Management Review, Spring 1966 (with Roger Vergin).
“Human Relations or Human Resources,” Harvard Business Review, July-August 1965. “Management Theory as a Factor in Manager-Supervisor Relationships,” Journal of the Academy of Management, December 1964.
“Conflicting Elements in Managerial Ideologies,” Industrial Relations, October 1964. “Theories of Managing: Conflicting Attitudes Among Manager and Their Bosses,” Personnel, March-April 1964.
