Ch5 Interorganizational Relationships

Question 1

Define coercive forces

Answer 1

External pressures (LEGAL) exerted on an organization to adopt structures, techniques, or behaviours similar to other organizations

Question 2

Collaborative network

Answer 2

Allow the organization to become DEPENDENT on other organizations to increase value and productivity for all

Question 3

Generalist

Answer 3

An organization that offers a broad range of products or services and serves a broad market

Question 4

Institutional environment

Answer 4

Norms and values from STAKEHOLDERS that organizations try to follow in order to please stakeholders.

Question 5

Institutional perspective

Answer 5

A view that holds that under high uncertainty, organizations imitate others in the me institutional environment.

Question 6

Institutional similarity

Answer 6

The emergence of common structures, management approaches, and behaviours among organizations in the same field

Question 7

Interorganizational relationships

Answer 7

The relatively enduring resource transactions, flows and linkages that occur among two or more organizations

Question 8

Legitimacy

Answer 8

organizations actions are desirable, proper, and APPROPRIATE within the environment’s system of norms, values and beliefs.

Question 9

Mimetic forces

Answer 9

UNCERTAINTY leads to pressure to COPY or model other organizations that appear successful

Question 10

Variation

Answer 10

The appearance of new organizational forms in response to the needs of the external environment; analogous to mutations in biology FILL VOID

Question 11

Organizational ecosystem

Answer 11

System formed by the interaction of a community if organizations and their environment, usually cutting across traditional industry lines.

Question 12

Organizational form

Answer 12

A organization’s specific technology, structure, product, goals and personnel

Question 13

Population

Answer 13

A set of organizations engaged in SIMILAR activities with similar patterns of resource utilization and outcomes

Question 14

Population ecology perspective

Answer 14

A focus on organizational diversity and adaptation within a company or population of organizations

Question 15

Retention

Answer 15

The preservation and institutionalization of selected ORGANIZATIONAL FORMS

Question 16

Selection

Answer 16

The process by which organizational variations are determined to fit the extant environment; variations that fail to fit the needs of the environment are “selected out” and fail

Question 17

Specialist

Answer 17

An organization that has a narrow range of goods or services and serves a narrow market.

Question 18

Struggle for existence

Answer 18

A principle of the population ecology model that holds that organizations are constantly in a competitive struggle for resources, and fighting to survive

Question 19

Normative forces

Answer 19

Pressures to change to achieve standards of professionalism and to adopt techniques that are considered by the professional community to be up-to-date and effective.