- the use of computer-integrated systems and flexible work processes to enable companies to mass produce a variety of products or services designed to exact customer specification
- the emerge of common structures, management approaches and behaviours among organizations in the same field
- principles that guide the decisions and behaviours of managers with regard to wether they are morally right or wrong
- a stucture that virtually eliminates both vertical hierarchy and departmental boundaries by organizing teams of employees around core work processes; the end-to-end work, info. and material flows that provide value directly to customers
- the stage of int. development in which a company has marketing and production facilities in many countries and more than one-third of its sales outside its home country
- org. decision making that is analog to the rational approach by individual managers
- the assignment of goals and tasks to be accomplished by employees
- behaviour that occurs betwwen organizational groups when participants identify with one group and perceive that other groups may block their groups goal achievments or expectations
- a situation that occurs when a director of one company and a director of another are both directors of a third company
- a separate entity for sharing development and production costs and penetrating new markets that us created with two or more active firms as sponsors
- an emerging view that holds that under high uncertainty, org. imitate others in the same institutianl environment
- the relatively enduring resource transactions, flow and linkages that occur among two or more org.
- the most common form of management information system, these computerized systems provid managers with reports that summerize data and support day-to-day decision making
- a state in which a org. members develop a collective identity and know how to work together effectiveley
- org. members who serves as models or ideals for serving cultural norms and values
- an org. dominant perspective value, which may be internal or external
- norms and values from stakeholders that organizatiors try to follow in order to please stakeholders
- supplies necessary for production, such as land, raw materials and labour
- control over money is an important source of power within an org.
- the placing together of employees who perform similar functions or work processes and knowledge