SOC361H5 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Organizational Ecology, New Institutionalism, Transaction Cost
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Use at least two specific organizations as empirical examples to support and illustrate your arguments. A clearly defined sphere of competence in the legal sense. Strict and systematic discipline and control in the conduct of the office. Shares power and authority among group of colleagues. Use a specific organizational field (e. g. , an industry or a sector) as an empirical example to support and illustrate your arguments. Looks at the change and development from individual organizations to populations of organizations (hannan & freeman 1977, p. 933) Populations of organizations meaning it consists of all the organizations within a particular boundary that have a common form p. 936 - they must be alike in some way. Firms coexist in an ecological system and compete not only for business and talent, but also for symbolic indicators such as size, number of offices, overseas offices, etc (liu & wu 2016)
