MANA 341 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Coevolution, Population Ecology

• School: Concordia University
• Department: Management
• Course: MANA 341
• Professor: Donato Totaro

Document Summary

Interorganizational relationships are the relatively enduring resource transactions, flows and linkages that occur among two or more organizations. A company may be forced into interorganizational relationships depending on its needs and the instability and complexity of the environment. Organization ecosystem is a system formed by the interaction of a community of organizations and their environment. Traditional competition, which assumes a distinct company competing for survival and supremacy with other stand-alone businesses, no longer exists because each organization both supports and depends on the others for success and perhaps for survival. Organizations now need to coevolve with others in the ecosystem so that everyone gets stronger. In an organizational ecosystem, conflict and cooperation frequently exist at the same time. Mutual dependencies and partnerships have become a fact of life in business ecosystems. Companies today may use their strength to win conflicts and negotiations, but ultimately cooperation carries the day.