Exam 11: Organizational Transformations: Birth, Growth, Decline, and Death

The term population density refers to the number of organizations that have the same rate of growth in a particular industrial segment.

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Question 61

Isomorphism is ________ when organizations come to resemble one another over time because they indirectly adopt the norms and values of other organizations in the environment.

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Question 62

Specialist organizations concentrate their competences and skills to compete for resources in a single niche.

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Question 63

Which of the following is one of the five stages in Greiner's model of growth?

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Question 64

Which of the following controls an organization's behavior when it is in the "growth through creativity" stage of Greiner's model?

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Question 65

________ is the process that ensures the survival of the organizations that have the skills and abilities that best fit the environment.

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Question 66

Which of the following statements is most likely to be true regarding an organization that follows a K-strategy?

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Question 67

The ________ is the set of values and norms that govern the behavior of a population of organizations.

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Question 68

Describe the Weitzel and Jonsson's model of organizational decline.

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Question 69

________ proposes that during the process of organizational growth each stage ends with a crisis that must be resolved before the organization can advance to the next stage.

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Question 70

According to population ecology theory, ________.

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Question 71

According to Greiner's model of organizational growth, during the "growth through direction" stage an organization experiences a crisis of ________.

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Question 72

Isomorphism is normative when organizations intentionally imitate and copy one another to increase their legitimacy.

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Question 73

According to Greiner's model of organizational growth, organizations experience a crisis of control during the "growth through creativity" stage.

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Question 74

Explain the difference between r-strategy and K-strategy.

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Question 75

According to Weitzel and Jonsson's model of organizational decline, if managers fail to halt decline at the inaction stage, the immediate next stage of decline into which the organization moves is the ________ stage.

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Question 76

The Institutional theory argues that the organizations operating in uncertain environments should use a tall hierarchy of authority.

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Question 77

________ use their well-developed competences to compete for resources in many or all niches in an environment.

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Question 78

Which of the following statements is most likely to be true about specialists?

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Question 79

Which of the following theories proposes that an organization must gain legitimacy in the eyes of stakeholders in order to grow and survive?

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The term population density refers to the number of organizations that have the same rate of growth in a particular industrial segment.

Isomorphism is ________ when organizations come to resemble one another over time because they indirectly adopt the norms and values of other organizations in the environment.

Specialist organizations concentrate their competences and skills to compete for resources in a single niche.

Which of the following is one of the five stages in Greiner's model of growth?

Which of the following controls an organization's behavior when it is in the "growth through creativity" stage of Greiner's model?

________ is the process that ensures the survival of the organizations that have the skills and abilities that best fit the environment.

Which of the following statements is most likely to be true regarding an organization that follows a K-strategy?

The ________ is the set of values and norms that govern the behavior of a population of organizations.

Describe the Weitzel and Jonsson's model of organizational decline.

________ proposes that during the process of organizational growth each stage ends with a crisis that must be resolved before the organization can advance to the next stage.

According to population ecology theory, ________.

According to Greiner's model of organizational growth, during the "growth through direction" stage an organization experiences a crisis of ________.

Isomorphism is normative when organizations intentionally imitate and copy one another to increase their legitimacy.

According to Greiner's model of organizational growth, organizations experience a crisis of control during the "growth through creativity" stage.

Explain the difference between r-strategy and K-strategy.

According to Weitzel and Jonsson's model of organizational decline, if managers fail to halt decline at the inaction stage, the immediate next stage of decline into which the organization moves is the ________ stage.

The Institutional theory argues that the organizations operating in uncertain environments should use a tall hierarchy of authority.

________ use their well-developed competences to compete for resources in many or all niches in an environment.

Which of the following statements is most likely to be true about specialists?

Which of the following theories proposes that an organization must gain legitimacy in the eyes of stakeholders in order to grow and survive?

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