COLLAB 2N03 Lecture 16: Chapter15 Environment, Strategy, and Technology
4 Mar 2016
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Interest groups: different interest groups evaluate organizational effectiveness according to different criteria. !2: different parts of the organization will often be concerned with different environmental components. Events in various components of the environment provide both constraints and opportunities for organizations. Resource dependence: the dependency of organizations on environmental inputs, such as capital, raw materials, and human resources, the degree of resource dependency is a function of environmental uncertainty. An approach to interconnecting the components in a system or network so that those components, also called elements, depend on each other to the least external practicable. Coupling refers to the degree of direct knowledge that one element has of another. A matrix of the rate of change and complexity . It is the perceived environment that comprises the basis for strategy formulation. !4: the crucial factor is the range of uncertainty across the sub-environments faced by the various departments.
