BUSI 610 Chapter Notes - Chapter 5: Cybercrime, Trade Association, Joint Venture
14 Mar 2017
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Organizational ecosystem: system formed by the interaction of a community of organizations and their environment, cuts across traditional industry lines. Megacommunity approach: businesses, governments, and nonprofit organizations join together across sectors and industries to tackle huge, compelling problems of mutual interest, such as energy development, world hunger, or cybercrime. Resource dependence theory: argues that organizations try to minimize their dependence on other organizations for the supply of important resources and try to influence the environment to make resources available. Types of resource dependence relationships (6: acquisition/merger. Collaborative network perspective: emerging alternative to resource dependence theory, companies join together to become more competitive and to share scarce resources. Population: set of organizations engaged in similar activities with similar patterns of resource utilization and outcomes. Organizational form: organization"s specific technology, structure, products, goals, and personnel, which can be selected or rejected by the environment.
