BU398 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Telephone Tapping
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*** diagram that summarizes class 8 and 9. When an organization depends on the environment for material and financial resources. Goal is to acquire control over resources to minimize dependence. Organizations are vulnerable if resources are controlled by other organizations. One way to solve is through partnership with other organizations. Go acquire another organization, integrate into our own organization. Merge with them, create formal partnership , management structure. Less formal way to integrate the 2 organizations. We get one of the executives to play a role in our board. Interlocking directorates different people from different companies, accomplish goals across different organizations. Executive recruitment: transferring or exchanging executives (favorable linkages between organizations; industry-specific expertise) Advertising and pr: advertising to establish favorable relationships (e. g. , speeches, press reports, tv) Change of domain: changing the business (e. g. , market, suppliers, customers, employees, location) Move on in terms of the niche we"re operating within. Political activity, regulation: influencing government legislation and regulation (political strategy) ceo lobbying.
