SOCIOL 144 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Market Failure, Interlocking Directorate, Dependency Theory
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This section of the course focuses on an analysis of organizations and their environments. We want to better understand how organizations interact with other organizations, how they acquire resources they require to operate and how they work with governments or respond to local cultural issues that influence their expansion into new geographical regions. Is it possible to manage your relationship with your environment: first, let"s differentiate the term organizational environment from the term organizational ecology. If you have all these actors beyond the need of satisfaction, they"ll pull the organization beyond. What this means is that if you push it, the organizational structured will be isomorphic (iso similar, morphic come together) become the same organization. The environment refers to the general social space in which all organizations in a specific shared location operate. Managing = controlling: resource dependency means exactly what it says.
