ORGS 2010 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Abortion Clinic, World Health Organization, Abortion-Rights Movements

• School: WLU
• Department: Organization Studies
• Course: ORGS 2010
• Professor: Eleanor Westney

Document Summary

Organizations external environment: everything outside the org. boundaries that could affect it in someway. How the 3 lens see the organizational externally: Strategic: sees a reasource environment, org. that supply inputs and constitute a market for its outputs that have a formal power: inputs-output space- a source of inputs and a market for outputs. Political: external stakeholders that have their own interest, and have a stake in the org. actions: external stakeholders: external social actors with a stake (interest) in the activites of the org. Cultural: institutional environment of values, norms, shared beliefs and mind-sets and preceptions: org. field: social and cultural network that shapes how the org. is viewed and how its members view it. Tools to keep close connectional to external environment see, closer relationships with customers, non-market strategies-(strategies for influencing regulatory and institutional env. Like alliances with competitors to have tqm, ngo s and greening)