Exam 5: Interorganizational Relationships

Arkal Corp.manufactures wooden chairs and Borston Corp.manufactures plastic chairs.Arkal Corp.wants to enter into a resource-dependence relationship with Borston Corp.Which of the following types of resource-dependence relationships is most likely to result in Arkal Corp.gaining full control over the joint outcome?

A company may use any or all of the mechanisms of mimetic,coercive,or normative forces to change itself for greater _____ in the institutional environment.

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

Companies accept normative pressures to become like one another due to _____.

Explain in brief the different types of resource-dependence relationships.

Which of the following theories argues that organizations try to minimize their reliance on other organizations for the supply of important resources and try to influence the environment to make resources available?

Interorganizational linkages encourage risk taking.

A strategic alliance is more formal and binding than a joint venture.

Which of the following is true of collaborative roles played by managers?

In the partnership-orientation view,dependence on another company is seen to increase rather than reduce risks.

Organizations operating under the resource-dependence philosophy will:

According to the resource-dependence perspective,when threatened by greater dependence,organizations will assert control over external resources to minimize that dependence.

Explain how collaborative-network perspective is an emerging alternative to resource-dependence theory.

Summarize the perspectives for understanding interorganizational relationships.

In the context of the population-ecology perspective,compare and contrast specialists and generalists.

Selection is the preservation and institutionalization of selected organizational forms.

Organizational changes that result from coercive forces occur when an organization is completely independent of another.

A system formed by the interaction of a community of organizations and their environment is referred to as a(n):

Describe the power implications of resource-dependence relationships.

In the context of the population-ecology perspective,which of the following best illustrates a generalist strategy?