Specifying External Relations
Definition of and Actors in an Organization's Environment
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 9890833 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Dave Ulrich (University of Michigan, corresponding author) |
| Year | 1984 |
| Volume | 37 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 245-262 |
| Publication date | 1984-03-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Human Relations (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0018-7267 • E-ISSN: 1741-282X |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1177/001872678403700305 |
| OpenAlex | W2117180282 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 41 |
Organization-environment concerns have become an increasingly important topic for both academic researchers and organizational practitioners. Unfortunately, some of the academic perspectives on organization-environment relations have emphasized the study of constructs within an organization's environment more than specific activities that an organization may adopt with actors in its environment. This paper proposes a three-step process for bridging academic research and organizational practice around organization-environment relations. First, distinctions between environments as nonmanipulable elements and niches as manipulable elements can be made. Resource dependence, efficiency, and uncertainty perspectives on environments have particular application at organization-niche interfaces. Ecology and uncertainty perspectives have relevance at the organization-environment interface. Second, niches can be at least partially identified through methods used to define strategic groups or populations. Classification and evolutionary analyses are two promising techniques that can be used to define populations and niches. Third, once niches are defined, actors within a niche can be identified and specific relationships between an organization and actors examined
Biology · Bridging (networking · Ecological niche · Knowledge management · Management · Niche · Organizational theory · Political science · Process (computing · Relevance (law · Sociology · Business Strategy and Innovation · Computer Science · Ecology · Global and Cross-Cultural Management · Innovation and Knowledge Management
Organizational analysis
Research in Organizational Behavior
Constructive typology and social theory.
Markets and Hierarchies : analysis and antitrust implications
Formal Organizations
Vertical Integration, Appropriable Rents, and the Competitive Contracting Process
Human ecology
Organizations
Problems with Contingency Theory
The Organizational Life Cycle
Dynamics of Organizational Expansion in National Systems of Education
A System Resource Approach to Organizational Effectiveness
Organizational Structure, Environment and Performance
Environments of Organizations
Niche Width and the Dynamics of Organizational Populations
The Population Ecology of Organizations
Interdependence and hierarchy in organizations
| Citations per year | 0.03 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 1993 - 1993 (1) |
| Highly cited | No |