Interorganizational
Relationships
Interorganizational Overview
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Interorganizational Relationships
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Organizational ecology
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Why work together?
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What does it mean for managers?
Interorganizatonal Relationships
Organization Type
Org.
Relationship
Dissimilar
Similar
Competitive
Resource
Dependence
Population
Ecology
Cooperative
Collaborative
Network
Institutionalism
Dependence Theory
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What is it?
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Two factors
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Importance of resource
Power of companies that own it
Who has the power?
Collaborative Networks
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What is it?
Why?
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Old way
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New way (Collaborative Networking)
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Population Ecology
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Organizations adapting within populations
of organizations
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“Out with the old, in with the new.”
Organizational Form
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Niches
Population Ecology
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Variation
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Struggle for Survival
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Selection
Factors
Strategies
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Generalist
Specialist
Which is better?
Retention
Institutionalism
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Institutional Perspective
Institutional Environment
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Legitimacy
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Think of banks!
Isomorphism
Institutionalism
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Two dimensions
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Technical
Institutional
Institutionalism
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Institutional Isomorphism
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Mimetic forces
Downsizing
 Benchmarking
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Coercive forces
Government
 Wal-mart
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Normative forces
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Education