module 8

Question 1

The Iron cage

Answer 1

bureaucracy theory
- helps orgs be more efficient

Question 2

Structuration

Answer 2

Stakeholders watch the field and identify best practices, standards and norms emerge, information and perceptions get
exchanged

Question 3

organizational field

Answer 3

community of orgs that create a recognized institutional life

share common meaning

interact with each other frequently and fatefully

Question 4

isomorphism

Answer 4

constraining process that forces one unit in a population to resemble other units that face the same set of environmental conditions

Question 5

legitamacy

Answer 5

orgs actions are desirable, proper and appropriate within the enviros system of norms, values and beliefs

Question 6

homogeneity

Answer 6

orgs seeks to fit in, obtain legitamacy, strategies focus on lessening diversity and decisions are amde to make firms more similar

Question 7

mimetic forces

Answer 7

copy or model other orgs

Question 8

coercive forces

Answer 8

pressures from governmental and regulatory agencies
pressure due to collaboratio

Question 9

normative

Answer 9

orgs have duties and obligations
trained in the same set of norms, rules, stds