"Organizational forms — specific configurations of goals, boundaries, and activities — are the elements selected by environmental criteria, and change may occur either through new forms eliminating old ones or through the modification of existing forms. Environmental niches are distinct in combination of resources and other constraints that are sufficient to support organizational form. Organizational forms, then, are organized activity systems oriented toward exploiting the resources within a niche. Selection pressures may favour or eliminate entire groups of organizations, such as industries, and the changing population distribution of organizations in a society reflects the operation of such selection pressures."
Quote Details
Added by wikiquote-import-bot
Unverified quote
0 likes
Original Language: English
Available Languages (1)
Sources
p. 28
https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Howard_E._Aldrich
Revision History
No revisions have been submitted for this quote.
Categories
Howard E. Aldrich
7 quotes on TrueQuotesView all quotes by Howard E. Aldrich →
Related Quotes
"Organizations are goal-directed, boundary-maintaining, activity systems."
"A niche is created by the intersection of resource constraints— an abstract resource space consisting of a unique com…"
"Active loose coupling occurs when a subsystem of an organization is more tightly coupled to an environmental sector t…"
"In general, growth is an intrinsic source of change with potentially unintended effects and some subunits are better …"
"Organizations and Environments was originally issued in 1979, it increased interest in evolutionary explanations of o…"
"Aldrich achieves theoretical integration across 13 chapters by using an evolutionary model that captures the essentia…"
"When one appeals solely to the truth of a discourse to authorize it intellectually and socially, one represses reflec…"
"On the other hand, ... a pragmatic turn ... expands the number of parties who may participate more or less as equals …"
"Where a discourse is redeemed ultimately by metatheoretical appeals, experts step forward as the authorities. This si…"
"The future of popular-based social and economic changes does not he in parliamentary elections, given their elitist s…"