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Interorganizational relationships... |
the relatively enduring resource transactions, flows, and linkages that occur among two or more organizations |
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What are the four theories of the inter organizational relationships framework? |
Resource dependency Population ecology Collaborative networks Institutionalism |
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Resource dependence... |
try to minimize dependence on other organizations and try to influence the environment to make those resources available
It is all about autonomy and resources |
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What is dependence on resources based on? |
The importance of the resource and the degree of control |
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What are the two types of strategies regarding resource dependence? |
Resource strategies Power strategies |
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Name five resource strategies |
ownership strategic alliances cooptation executive recruitment advertising and public relations |
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How can an organization use a power strategy? |
By using dependency of other organizations against themselves (e.g. Walmart) |
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Collaborative network theory... |
an alternative to resource dependency
companies join together to become more competitive and to share scarce resources |
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Three aspects of networks... |
Number of ties Network centrality Structural holes |
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Network centrality... |
top managers increase their power by locating themselves centrally in an organization and surrounding themselves with loyal subordinates |
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Population ecology theory... |
a perspective in which the focus is on organizational diversity and adaptation within a community or population of organizations |
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What question does population ecology theory try to answer? Explain. |
Why are new forms of organizations constantly appearing?
Existing organizations are severely constrained from adapting by many factors. New organizations, therefore, emerge |
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Organizational forms are... |
organization's specific technology, structure, products, goals, and personnel |
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Niche is... |
a domain of unique environmental resources and needs |
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3 processes under population ecology theory that organizations are driven by... |
variation - number of variations selection - niche width retention - institutionalization |
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Under population ecology, what are the two strategies organizations use to survive? |
Specialist - competitive Generalist - protected |
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Institutional theory... |
survival is dependent on the ability to achieve congruence with the expectations of the environment |
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What is the institutional environment? |
Norms and values of stakeholders |
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What is the organizational goal according to institutional theory? |
Legitimacy |
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Legitimacy... |
the degree to which an organization's actions are desirable and appropriate in that environment |
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Two parts of an organization are... |
technical - day-to-day institutional - public face |
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Three mechanisms of institutional adaptation... |
Mimetic - benchmark, deliberate mimic Coercive - forced, legal Normative - expectations, not deliberate |
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Isomorphism |
how organizations become the same |
