BUS 374 Chapter Notes - Chapter 5: Isomorphism

• School: Simon Fraser University
• Department: Business Administration
• Course: BUS 374
• Professor: Adam Cotteral

Document Summary

Competition is changing: changing technology and new regulations present organizations with international competition, organizations are involved in complex networks; the number of corporate alliances are increasing. Interorganizational relationships: resource transactions, flows, and linkages that occur among two or more organizations. Important for managers to understand that they must learn to manage horizontally to be effective in an ecosystem. 2. their degree of similarity, and their degree of competiveness. Interorganizational frameworks: relationships among organizations can be characterized by whether the organizations are dissimilar or similar and whether relationships are competitive or cooperative, understanding these perspectives, managers can assess their environment and adopt strategies to suit their needs. Interorganizational linkages provide a kind of safety net that encourages long term investment and risk taking: companies can achieve higher levels of innovation and performance as they learn to shift from an adversarial to a partnership mindset. Individual organization adaption is severely limited compared to the changes demanded by the environment.