Interorganizational Relationships

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Interorganizational Relationships
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Interorganizational Overview

• Interorganizational Relationships
• Organizational ecology
• Why work together?
• What does it mean for managers?

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Interorganizatonal Relationships
Organization Type
Dissimilar
Similar
Org. Relationship
Resource Dependence
Population Ecology
Competitive
Collaborative Network
Institutionalism
Cooperative
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Dependence Theory

• What is it?
• Two factors
• Importance of resource
• Power of companies that own it
• Who has the power?

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Collaborative Networks

• What is it?
• Why?
• Old way
• New way (Collaborative Networking)

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Population Ecology

• Organizations adapting within populations of
  organizations
• Out with the old, in with the new.
• Organizational Form
• Niches

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Population Ecology

• Variation Selection Retention
• Struggle for Survival
• Factors
• Strategies
• Generalist
• Specialist
• Which is better?

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Institutionalism

• Institutional Perspective
• Institutional Environment
• Legitimacy
• Think of banks!
• Isomorphism

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Institutionalism

• Two dimensions
• Technical
• Institutional

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Institutionalism

• Institutional Isomorphism
• Mimetic forces
• Downsizing
• Benchmarking
• Coercive forces
• Government
• Wal-mart
• Normative forces
• Education