Ch5 Interorganizational Relationships Flashcards
Define coercive forces
External pressures (LEGAL) exerted on an organization to adopt structures, techniques, or behaviours similar to other organizations
Collaborative network
Allow the organization to become DEPENDENT on other organizations to increase value and productivity for all
Generalist
An organization that offers a broad range of products or services and serves a broad market
Institutional environment
Norms and values from STAKEHOLDERS that organizations try to follow in order to please stakeholders.
Institutional perspective
A view that holds that under high uncertainty, organizations imitate others in the me institutional environment.
Institutional similarity
The emergence of common structures, management approaches, and behaviours among organizations in the same field
Interorganizational relationships
The relatively enduring resource transactions, flows and linkages that occur among two or more organizations
Legitimacy
organizations actions are desirable, proper, and APPROPRIATE within the environment’s system of norms, values and beliefs.
Mimetic forces
UNCERTAINTY leads to pressure to COPY or model other organizations that appear successful
Variation
The appearance of new organizational forms in response to the needs of the external environment; analogous to mutations in biology FILL VOID
Organizational ecosystem
System formed by the interaction of a community if organizations and their environment, usually cutting across traditional industry lines.
Organizational form
A organization’s specific technology, structure, product, goals and personnel
Population
A set of organizations engaged in SIMILAR activities with similar patterns of resource utilization and outcomes
Population ecology perspective
A focus on organizational diversity and adaptation within a company or population of organizations
Retention
The preservation and institutionalization of selected ORGANIZATIONAL FORMS
Selection
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
Specialist
An organization that has a narrow range of goods or services and serves a narrow market.
Struggle for existence
A principle of the population ecology model that holds that organizations are constantly in a competitive struggle for resources, and fighting to survive
Normative forces
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.
