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Organizations as open systems: organizations and their environments

4 important questions on Organizations as open systems: organizations and their environments

Pfeffer provides the basic argument of the resource dependence perspective as:

1. organizations are the fundamental units for understanding intercorporate relations and society.
2. these organizations are not autonomous
3. interdependence, survival and success are dependent of the network
4. organizations take actions to manage external interdependencies, although such actions are inevitably never completely successful and produce new patterns of dependence and interdependence
5. these patterns of dependence produce interorganizational as well as intraorganizational power, where such power has some effect on organizational behavior.

Institutional Isomorphism and Collectieve Rationality is written by?

DiMaggio and Powell

From which three related causes resulted bureaucracy? (Weber)

competition amng capitalist firms in the marketplace (most important)
competition amng states, increasing rulers'need to control their staff and citizenry
bourgeois demands for equal protection under the law.