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19 Cards in this Set
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organizational ecosystem
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system founded by the interaction of the organization and the environment
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Resource Dependence (def)
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organizations try to minimize their dependence on other organizations
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Collaborative networks (def)
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companies join together to become more competitve and to share resources
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Traditional orientation (adversarial)
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low dependence
suspicion/competition |
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new orientation (partnership)
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high dependence
trust |
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Population Ecology
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focuses on organizational diversity and adaptation within a population of organizations
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Population
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set of organizations participating in similar activities
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organizational form
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organization's components (technology) that can be either accepted or rejected by the environment
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Niche
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a domain or unique environment to support an organization's form
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Process of ecological change (3)
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Variation
Selection Retention |
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Variation
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variations appear within population
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Selectio
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some orgs find niche and survive
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retention
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a few organizations grow large and become institutionalized
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Strategies for survival (2)
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generalists
specialists |
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generalist (def)
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offer broad range of products
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specialists
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offer a narrower range of goods
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institutioalism
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companies do well if they are perceived by the general populace that they have a general right to exist
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Legitimacy
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defined as the general perspective that an organization's actions are appropriate within the environment
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isomorphism
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condition that causes one unit in an organization to resemble other units
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