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"Two of the best minds in the business, Pfeffer and Salancik crafted this powerful argument that remains timely and timeless. That,s the true test of a classic. The External Control of Organizations is a trusted, durable, evocative work." - Karl E. Weick, Rensis Likert Distinguished University Professor of Organizational Behavior and Psychology, University of Michigan Business School; "Pfeffer and Salancik have produced a good, persuasive statement of the resource dependence view.... Their book is a welcome effort to formulate the perspective more completely, weigh the relevant empirical evidence, and develop implications for organizational design." - Administrative Science Quarterly
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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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"Two of the best minds in the business, Pfeffer and Salancik crafted this powerful argument that remains timely and timeless. That,s the true test of a classic. The External Control of Organizations is a trusted, durable, evocative work." - Karl E. Weick, Rensis Likert Distinguished University Professor of Organizational Behavior and Psychology, University of Michigan Business School; "Pfeffer and Salancik have produced a good, persuasive statement of the resource dependence view.... Their book is a welcome effort to formulate the perspective more completely, weigh the relevant empirical evidence, and develop implications for organizational design." - Administrative Science Quarterly
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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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The central thesis of this book is that to understand the behavior of an organization you must understand the context of that behavior-that is, the ecology of the organization. Read the first page
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