Question 1

When the computer industry first reached the everyday consumer, Commodore computers were extremely popular, and the first computers ever purchased by many people. As other personal computers such as Apple and IBM entered the marketplace with word processing, database programs, and a few games, Commodore kept its focus on games. From the perspective of the population ecology model, explain what happened to these organizations over the long run, and why.

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Question 2

What kind of education and training do you think would help prepare you for the reality of being a manager who has to manage a set of interorganizational relationships as well as managing the internal affairs of your own company?

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Question 3

Does the desire for legitimacy result in organizations being more similar or being more different? Take a position, and defend your position.

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Question 4

Is the use of management fads any different, in your opinion, from the pursuit of legitimacy through mimetic processes?

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Question 5

A mentor from an established organization in your industry told you "to reach out and control external sectors that threaten needed resources." How could that be done? In your answer, apply principles from the textbook.

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Question 6

Explain and contrast the various processes by which institutional similarity occurs.

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Question 7

Develop your own explanation/theory of why organizations today find collaboration as important as competition, and why collaborating organizations tend to take on similar characteristics. Would collaboration be enhanced just as easily between organizations that had different characteristics?

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Question 8

Identify a firm in each stage of the process of ecological change: variation, selection, and retention. Explain why you classified each firm as you did.

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Question 9

We studied the notion of institutional similarity and the reasons for it. Develop your own theory about the effects of the tendency for institutional similarity on business success.

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Question 10

Why is the mindset in North American companies changing away from a traditional adversarial relationship with other companies?

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Question 11

List the characteristics of the traditional theory of organizational relationships.

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Question 12

Describe and illustrate the generalist and specialist strategies that organizations use for their struggle for existence.

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Question 13

Discuss how the adversarial versus partnership orientations work among students in class. What carryover from the classroom settings at your university will help or hinder interorganizational relationships you may be managing in the future?

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Quiz 5: Interorganizational Relationships