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| activities that link and coordinate an organization with key elements in the external environment |
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| activities that absorb uncertainty from the environment |
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| when leaders from important sectors in the environment are made part of an organization |
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| the cognitive and emotional differences among managers in various functional departments of an organization and formal structure differences among these departments |
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| a situation that occurs when a member of the board of directors of one company sits on the board of another |
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| an organization's chosen environmental field of activity |
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| includes those sectors that may not directly affect the daily operations of a firm but will indirectly influence it |
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| a situation that occurs when a director of one company and a director of another are both directors of a third company |
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| the quality of collaboration between departments of an organization |
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| a formal linkage that occurs when a member of the board of directors of one company sits on the board of another company |
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| an organization system marked by rules, procedures, a clear hierarchy of authority, and centralized decision making |
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| an organization system marked by free-flowing, adaptive processes, an unclear hierarchy of authority, and decentralized decision making |
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| organizational environment |
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| all elements that exist outside the boundary of the organization and have the potential to affect all or part of the organization |
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| a situation in which organizations depend on the environment, but strive to acquire control over resources to minimize their dependence |
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| subdivisions of the external environment that contain similar elements |
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| the number and dissimilarity of external elements relevant to an organization's operation |
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| stable-unstable dimension |
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| the state of an organization's environmental elements |
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| sectors with which the organization interacts directly and that have a direct effect on the organization's ability to achieve its goals |
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| occurs when decision makers do not have sufficient information about environmental factors and have a difficult time predicting external changes |
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