Chapter 3 Multiple choice questions

. The inter-organizational network consists of:

Who one knows in the organization.

Other organizations and actors with which the focal organization interacts on a regular basis.

International and global conditions in the organization's environment.

All of the organization's competitors.

. Perceptions of environmental uncertainty are a function of which two dimensions of the environment of organizations?

Resources and intuitions

Mechanistic and organic

Differentiation and integration

Complexity and rate of change

. Concerns about family values in the US resulted in passage of a family leave bill that affects all organizations with more than 50 employees. Family values would be best located within the ___________ sector of the general environment.

Governmental

Employee unions

Political

Social

. Merging with suppliers is an example of which resource dependence strategy?

Joint venturing

Vertical integration

Horizontal integration

Supply chain management

. According to structural contingency theory, conditions with a high rate of change and a low degree of complexity mean:

There is a constant need for new information.

Information overload occurs.

It is not known what information is needed.

None of the above.

. According to population ecology theory, when competencies and resources fit environmental demands then the organization is:

Selected and retained

Legitimized

Rationalized

None of the above

. Resource dependence theory focuses attention on:

Survival of the fittest among the organizations comprising the environment.

Power relationships existing between the organizations in an environment.

The rate of change in an organization's environment.

Ways in which organizations take on the same form as their environment.

. Which theory of organization-environment relationships is credited with bringing social legitimacy concerns to organization theory?

Organic theory

Resource dependence theory

Institutional theory

Population ecology theory

. Which of the following is not considered to be a mechanism of institutionalization?

Mimesis

Competition

Normative pressure

Coercion

. The enacted environment presupposes that:

Environmental conditions cannot be separated from perceptions of those conditions.

A multiple interpretation of goals is necessary.

Organizations adapt to their environment.

All of the above.