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| external pressures such as legal requirements exerted on an organization to adopt structures, techniques, or behaviours similar to other organizations |
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| an emerging perspective whereby organizations allow themselves to become dependent on other organizations to increase value and productivity for all |
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| an organization that offers a broad range of products or services and serves a broad market |
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| institutional environment |
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| norms and values from stakeholders that organizations try to follow in order to please stakeholders |
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| institutional perspective |
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| a view that holds that, under high uncertainty, organizations imitate others in the same institutional environment |
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| the emergence of common structures, management approaches, and behaviours among organizations in the same field |
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| interorganizational relationships |
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| the relatively enduring resource transactions, flows, and linkages that occur among two or more organizations |
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| the general perspective that an organization's actions are desirable, proper, and appropriate within the environment's system of norms, values, and beliefs |
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| under conditions of uncertainty, the pressure to copy or model other organizations that appear to be successful in the environment |
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| a domain of unique environmental resources and needs |
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| pressures to adopt structures, techniques, or management process because they are considered by the community to be up-to-date and effective |
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| a system formed by the interaction of a community of organizations and their environment, usually cutting across traditional industry lines |
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| an organization's specific technology, structure, products, goals, and personnel |
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| a set of organizations engaged in similar activities with similar patters of resource utilization and outcomes |
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| population-ecology perspective |
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| a perspetive in which the focus is on organizational diversity and adaptation within a community or population or organizations |
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| the preservation and institutionalization of selected organizational forms |
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| the process by which organizational variations are determined to fit the external environment; variations that fail to fit the needs of the environment are "selected out" and fail |
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| an organization that has a narrow range of goods and services or serves a narrow market |
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| a principle of the population ecology model that holds that organizations are engaged in a competitive struggle for resources and fighting to survive |
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| appearance of new organizational forms in response to the needs of the external environment; analogous to mutations in biology |
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