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Chapter 3 Multiple choice questions
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The inter-organizational network consists of:
Who one knows in the organization.
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Other organizations and actors with which the focal organization interacts on a regular basis.
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International and global conditions in the organization's environment.
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All of the organization's competitors.
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Perceptions of environmental uncertainty are a function of which two dimensions of the environment of organizations?
Resources and intuitions
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Mechanistic and organic
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Differentiation and integration
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Complexity and rate of change
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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
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Employee unions
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Political
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Social
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Merging with suppliers is an example of which resource dependence strategy?
Joint venturing
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Vertical integration
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Horizontal integration
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Supply chain management
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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.
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Information overload occurs.
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It is not known what information is needed.
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None of the above.
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According to population ecology theory, when competencies and resources fit environmental demands then the organization is:
Selected and retained
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Legitimized
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Rationalized
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None of the above
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Resource dependence theory focuses attention on:
Survival of the fittest among the organizations comprising the environment.
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Power relationships existing between the organizations in an environment.
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The rate of change in an organization's environment.
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Ways in which organizations take on the same form as their environment.
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Which theory of organization-environment relationships is credited with bringing social legitimacy concerns to organization theory?
Organic theory
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Resource dependence theory
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Institutional theory
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Population ecology theory
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Which of the following is
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Mimesis
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Competition
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Normative pressure
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Coercion
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The enacted environment presupposes that:
Environmental conditions cannot be separated from perceptions of those conditions.
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A multiple interpretation of goals is necessary.
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Organizations adapt to their environment.
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All of the above.
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