The Causal Texture of Organizational Environments

Emery, F. E.; Trist, Eric

doi:10.1177/001872676501800103

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“…Alignment refers to the nature of the interactions between the external environment and the organization (Emery and Trist 1965;Thompson 1967;Pfeffer and Salancik 1978), the organization's strategy and structure (Chandler 1966), and the organization's structure and behavioral capabilities (Katz and Kahn 1978;Kimberly 1984). When a partnership is designing a governance structure that is most suitable for coordinating its activities, the partners must simultaneously decide on the nature and scope of the problems they wish to address, consider the external environment, select the appropriate strategy for accomplishing the partnership's goals, and take into account the membership composition and task complexity.…”

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The Governance and Management of Effective Community Health Partnerships: A Typology for Research, Policy, and Practice

2000

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Community health partnerships (CHPs) are voluntary collaborations of diverse community organizations that have joined forces in order to pursue a shared interest in improving community health. Although these cross‐sectoral collaborations represent a way to address social determinants of health and disease in society, they suffer from governance and management problems associated with interorganizational relationships in general and health care challenges specifically. A typology of effective governance and management characteristics provides a systematic, theoretically based way of addressing dimensions of governance and management and serves as a guide in constructing, maintaining, and measuring successful partnerships. It offers a multidisciplinary perspective for classifying important organizational issues, identifying barriers to successful development and sustainability, and facilitating the attainment of goals.

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Section: Alignmentmentioning

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The Governance and Management of Effective Community Health Partnerships: A Typology for Research, Policy, and Practice

2000

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“…The potency of structure and its interaction with culture and the environment, as well as its effects on communication processes, is understood from, for example, the early work of organizational theorists (Emory & Trist, 1965;Hall, 1972;Lawrence & Lorsch, 1967;Pugh, 1973;Selznick, 1949;Thompson, J.D., 1967aThompson, J.D., , 1967bThompson, V.A., 1977;Thompson & Bates, 1957;Woodward, 1958). Their studies laid the foundation for empirical research that relied on an open systems approach and brought into sharper focus the role of the environment in corporate and public sector settings and its contributions to public policy decisions and organizational learning (e.g., Alford, 1975;Feldman, 1989;Hall & Quinn, 1983;Meyer & Scott, 1983;Pheffer & Salancik, 1974, 1978Pressman & Wildavsky, 1973;Robbin, 1984;Scott & Christenson, 1995;Scott et al, 1994;Wildavsky, 1979).…”

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Seeking explanation in theory: Reflections on the social practices of organizations that distribute public use microdata files for research purposes

Robbin

Koball

2001

J. Am. Soc. Inf. Sci.

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Public concern about personal privacy has recently focused on issues of Internet data security and personal information as big business. The scientific discourse about information privacy focuses on the crosspressures of maintaining confidentiality and ensuring access in the context of the production of statistical data for public policy and social research and the associated technical solutions for releasing statistical data. This article reports some of the key findings from a smallscale survey of organizational practices to limit disclosure of confidential information prior to publishing public use microdata files, and illustrates how the rules for preserving confidentiality were applied in practice. Explanation for the apparent deficits and wide variations in the extent of knowledge about statistical disclosure limitation (SDL) methods is located in theories of organizational life and communities of practice. The article concludes with suggestions for improving communication between communities of practice to enhance the knowledge base of those responsible for producing public use microdata files.

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“…[36], or through lobbying the governments. The part of the environment amenable to an organization's influence is sometimes referred to as its transactional environment [37] where, as described by van der Heijden, "the organization is a significant player, influencing outcomes as much as being influenced by them" [23, p.115]. He calls the part of organization's environment, "which has important repercussions for the organization but in which it has little or no influence" its contextual environment.…”

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“…The biggest limitation is the flip-side of its strength: a step-by-step guide for creating scenarios. Given such a systematic (37) process, it is easy to get into an "auto-pilot" mode and go through the motions of completing various process steps without fully engaging in the process. Users of these processes need to guard against this tendency.…”

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Axiomatic foundation and a structured process for developing firm-specific Intuitive Logics scenarios

Phadnis

Caplice

Singh

et al. 2014

Technological Forecasting and Social Change

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This paper presents an axiomatic foundation for developing firm-specific scenarios in the tradition of the Intuitive Logics School (ILS), a structured scenario creation process built on that foundation, and its application using a case study. The ILS outlines a high-level scenario-development process, but without a theoretical basis or prescriptions for executing different process steps. The lack of theoretical grounding has led to a proliferation of methods for developing scenarios, without any basis for comparing them. We fill this gap in the literature by articulating a set of axioms characterizing the nature of human knowledge about the business environment and scenarios as depictions of that environment. Using this theoretical foundation, we devise a structured process for developing scenarios. Finally, we demonstrate this process by applying it to develop four scenarios for a firm in the U.S. healthcare sector.

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The Causal Texture of Organizational Environments

Cited by 2,289 publications

References 6 publications

The Governance and Management of Effective Community Health Partnerships: A Typology for Research, Policy, and Practice

The Governance and Management of Effective Community Health Partnerships: A Typology for Research, Policy, and Practice

Seeking explanation in theory: Reflections on the social practices of organizations that distribute public use microdata files for research purposes

Axiomatic foundation and a structured process for developing firm-specific Intuitive Logics scenarios

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