Environments Shape Organizations
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Environments Shape Organizations
There is an old real-estate joke about the three most important factors in the business of realty, the punch line being “Location Location Location”. Though made in jest this idea is not far from the truth since the area in which any business type organization is established will typically play a big part in its overall success. On a much bigger scale the success of any business is also greatly dependant on the state of the global environment as well. Trends in culture and practices from other organizations will all ultimately have a huge impact on the way a business functions. It is the focus of this paper to explore the relationship between any business type organizations and the environments that influence its success both short term and long term.
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A great many works have been written and studies performed to find the correlations between an organization and its environment. Most of these studies focus on how the environment shapes an organization with only a few focusing on the reverse (Barley, 2010). This study will utilize several works to illustrate its point some will show how environments shape organizations and others explore the opposite. The first of these works is an Article written by Mark Bodnarczuk which discusses several global forces that will have an effect on organizational culture.
Bodnarczuk’s (2010) article states:
The Breckenridge Institute® has identified Four Global Forces that will shape organizational culture for the next 50 years: a) Advances in Science and Technology, b) Global Redistribution of Knowledge, Power, and Wealth, c) Competing Political, Cultural, and Religious Ideologies, and d) Sustainability of the Physical Environment.
Bodnarczuk’s (2010) article then goes on to reinforce this statement by defining and giving examples of each of the four forces such as: * The 20th Century discoveries in quantum physics that led
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Environments Shape Organizations
There is an old real-estate joke about the three most important factors in the business of realty, the punch line being “Location Location Location”. Though made in jest this idea is not far from the truth since the area in which any business type organization is established will typically play a big part in its overall success. On a much bigger scale the success of any business is also greatly dependant on the state of the global environment as well. Trends in culture and practices from other organizations will all ultimately have a huge impact on the way a business functions. It is the focus of this paper to explore the relationship between any business type organizations and the environments that influence its success both short term and long term.
Background
A great many works have been written and studies performed to find the correlations between an organization and its environment. Most of these studies focus on how the environment shapes an organization with only a few focusing on the reverse (Barley, 2010). This study will utilize several works to illustrate its point some will show how environments shape organizations and others explore the opposite. The first of these works is an Article written by Mark Bodnarczuk which discusses several global forces that will have an effect on organizational culture.
Bodnarczuk’s (2010) article states:
The Breckenridge Institute® has identified Four Global Forces that will shape organizational culture for the next 50 years: a) Advances in Science and Technology, b) Global Redistribution of Knowledge, Power, and Wealth, c) Competing Political, Cultural, and Religious Ideologies, and d) Sustainability of the Physical Environment.
Bodnarczuk’s (2010) article then goes on to reinforce this statement by defining and giving examples of each of the four forces such as: * The 20th Century discoveries in quantum physics that led
References: Mark Bodnarczuk, November 09, 2007 Four Global Forces That Will Shape Organizational Culture for the Next 50 Years Retrieved From: http://EzineArticles.com/826194 Ryszard Barnat, LLM, DBA, Ph.D. (Strat. Mgmt), Business and Its Environment Retrieved from: http://www.strategy-formulation.24xls.com/en102 Stephen R. Barley, June 24, 2010 Building an Institutional Field to Corral a Government: A Case to Set an Agenda DOI: 10.1177/0170840610372572, Retrieved from: http://www.stanford.edu/group/WTO/cgi-bin/uploads/barley_institutional_field.pdf http://www.businessdictionary.com/definition/environmental-scanning.html