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External Environments
all events outside a company that have the potential to influence or affect it
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Environmental Change
the rate at which a company's general and specific environments change
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Stable Environment
an environment in which the rate of change is slow
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Dynamic Environment
an environment in which the rate of change is fast
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Punctuated Equilibrium Theory
the theory that companies go through long periods of stability, followed by short periods of dynamic (equilibrium), fundamental change (revolution), and finishing with a return to stability (new equilibrium)
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Environmental Complexity
the number and the intensity of external factors in the environment that affect organizations
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Simple Environment
an environment with few environmental factors
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Complex Environment
an environment with many environmental factors
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Resource Scarcity
the abundance or shotage of critical organizational resources in an organization's external environment
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Uncertainty
extent to which managers can understand or predict which environmental changes and trends will affect their businesses
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General Environment
the economic, technological, sociocultural, and political trends that indirectly affect all organizations
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Specific Environment
the customers, competitiors, suppliers, industry regulations, and advocacy groups that are unique to an industry and directly affect how a complany does business
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Business Confidence Indices
indices that show managers' level of confidence about future business growth
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Technology
the knowledge, tools, and techniques used to transform input into output
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Competitors
comanies in the same industry that sell similar products or services to customers
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Competitive Analysis
a process for monitoring the competition that involves identifying competition, anticipating their moves, and determining their strengths and weaknesses
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Suppliers
companies that provide material, human, financial, and informational resources to other companies
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Supplier Dependence
the degree to which a company relies on a supplier because of the importance of the supplier's product to the company and the difficulty of finding other sources of that product
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Buyer Dependence
the degree to which a supplier relies on a buyer because of the importance of that buyer to the supplier and the difficulty of finding other buyers for its products
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Opportunistic Behavior
a transaction in which one party int he relationship benefits at the expense of the other
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Relationship Behavior
the establishment of mutually beneficial, long-term exchanges between buyers and suppliers
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Industry Regulation
regulations and rules that govern the business practices and procedures of specific industries, businesses, and professions
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Advocacy Groups
concerned citizens who band together to try to influence the business practices of specific industries, businesses, and professions
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Public Communications
an advocacy group tactic that relies on voluntary participation by the news media and the advertising industry to get the advocacy group's message out
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Media Advocacy
an advocacy group tactic that involves framing issues as public issues; exposing questionable, exploitative, or unethical practices; and forcing media coverage by buying media time or creating controversy that is likely to receive extensive news coverage
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Product Boycott
an advocacy group tactic that involves protesting a company's actions by persuading consumers not to purchase its product or service
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Environmental Scanning
searching the environment for important events or issues that might affect an organization
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Cognitive Maps
graphic depictions of how managers believe environmental factors to relate to possible organizational actions
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Internal Environment
the events and trends inside an organization that affect management, employees, and organzational culture
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Organizational Culture
the values, beliefs, and attitudes shared by organzational members
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Organizational Stories
stories told by organizational members to make sense of organizational events and changes and to emphasize culturally consistent assumptions, decisions, and actions
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Organizational Heroes
people celebrated for their qualities and achievements within an organization
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Company Mission
a company's purpose or reason for existing
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Consistent Organizational Culture
a company culture in which the company actively defines and teaches organizational values, beliefs, and attitudes
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Behavioral Addition
the process of having managers and employees perform new behaviors that are central to and symbolic of the new organizational culture that a company wants to create
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Behavioral Substitution
the process of having managers and employees perform new behavior central to the "new" organizational culture in place of behaviors that were central to the "old"organizational culture
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Visible Artifacts
visible signs of an organization's culutre, such as the office design and layout, company dress code, and company benefits and perks, like stock options, personal parking spaces, or the private company dining room
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