COMMERCE 1B03 Lecture Notes - Lecture 15: Tim Hortons, Loose Coupling, Wedding Cake
15 Apr 2016
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Events and conditions surrounding an organization that influence its activities. *relates to perception lecture but on a macro level. Org. can be described as open systems that take inputs from the external environment, transform some of them, and send them back into the environment as outputs. Open; micro - individual, inputs and outputs are open. Goes up and down; if they is a recession there can be a problem. Shortage of a supply -- can increase cost. Might be ousted out -- may need to re-structure. What legislative changes are going to affect my structure. Party that has a vested interest in what they do -- a beneficiary. The dependency of org. on environmental inputs, such as capital, raw materials, and human resources. Organizations vary in how resource dependent they are (high to low) The degree of resource dependency is a function of environmental uncertainty ** see teals duncan model.
