The External Control of Organizations: A Resource Dependence Perspective
- ISBN-10
- 080474789X
- ISBN-13
- 9780804747899
- Category
- Business & Economics / General
- Pages
- 300
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2003
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press
- Authors
- Jeffrey Pfeffer, Gerald R. Salancik
Description
This work explores how external constraints affect organizations and provides insights for designing and managing organizations to mitigate these constraints. All organizations are dependent on the environment for their survival. It contends that it is the fact of the organization's dependence on the environment that makes the external constraint and control of organizational behaviour both possible and almost inevitable. Organizations can either try to change their environments through political means or form interorganizational relationships to control or absorb uncertainty.
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