Exam 5: Interorganizational Relationships

What is an "organizational ecosystem?" How does this concept impact the changing role of management?

Geisinger Health System, Kaiser Permanente, Mayo Clinic, Intermountain Healthcare, and Group Health Cooperative believe that using and sharing digitized patient records can help healthcare providers make smarter decisions and provide better care, such as referring a patient to a specialist in another system. This is an example of which of the following?

The resource dependence perspective argues that while organizations may attempt to control environmental resources, they also try to maintain their independence.

Because of the diversity of products, services, and customers, generalists are able to reallocate resources internally to adapt to a changing environment whereas specialists are not.

Within business ecosystems, managers learn to move beyond traditional responsibilities of corporate strategy and designing hierarchical structures and control systems.

Generalists are generally more competitive than specialists in the narrow area in which their domains overlap.

The social basis for normative forces is:

In this new world, managers think about ____ rather than vertical structures.

The population-ecology model is developed from theories of natural selection in biology, and the terms retention and variation are used to refer to the underlying behavioral processes.

We studied the notion of institutional similarity and the reasons for it. Develop your own theory about the effects of the tendency for institutional similarity on business success.

Relatively enduring resource transactions, flows, and linkages that occur among two or more organizations are called:

What kind of education and training do you think would help prepare you for the reality of being a manager who has to manage a set of interorganizational relationships beyond managing internal affairs of your own company?

Which of the following from the institutional view is true about the two essential dimensions of organization?

In the population-ecology model of organizations, selection refers to the preservation and institutionalization of selected organizational forms.

____ is an organization's specific technology, structure, products, goals, and personnel, which can be selected or rejected by the environment.

Why is the mindset in U.S. companies changing away from a traditional adversarial relationship with other companies?

Institutional similarity is the emergence of a common structure and approach among organizations in the same field.

Mimetic forces refer to the similarity that is brought between organizations from environmental influences such as governmental laws and legislative requirements.

Compare and contrast three types of institutional similarity.

In the positive view of partnerships, dependence on another company is seen to increase risk rather than reducing it.