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Organizational Environment
Organizational Environment
Customers Distributors
Government Competitors
Economic Forces
Environment
Initially
Now
Domain
Initially
Now
What aspects of their environment require
adaptation within their organization?
3
Sources of Environmental Uncertainty
4
Organization Theory
5
Dealing with Uncertainty
Less formalized
More decentralized
Mutual adjustment
7
Resource Dependence Theory
8
Dilbert on Resource Dependence
9
FIGURE 6.6
Interorganizational Strategies
for Managing Symbiotic Interdependencies
Informal Formal
10
FIGURE 6.10
Interorganizational Strategies
for Managing Competitive Interdependencies
Informal Formal
11
Transaction Cost Theory
13
A Few Good Men
14