BU398 Chapter Notes - Chapter 5: Population Ecology, Uptodate, Institutional Theory
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Inter-organizational relationships: relatively enduring resource transactions flows, and linkages that occur among two or more organizations. The presumption world is composed of distinct businesses that thrive autonomy and compete for supremacy. A company may be forced into inter-organizational relationship depending on its needs and the instability and complexity if of the environment. Organizational ecosystem: system formed by the interaction of a community of organizations and their environment. Microsoft in four major industries: consumer electronics, information, communications and personal computers. Traditional competition: a distinct company competing for survival and supremacy with other stand-alone businesses, no longer exists because each organization both supports and depends on the other for success, and perhaps survival. Within business, ecosystem, and managers learn to move beyond traditional responsibilities of corporate strategy and designing hierarchy structures and control systems. Horizontal relationship include linkages with suppliers and customers, who become part of the team.
