October 18th, 2012 * Organization environment overview * Organizational environment & environmental domain * Environment of the solar power industry

Two key forces in the environment:
Information: uncertainty & contingencies of formal design
Resources: dependence and inter-organizational linkages

3 LENSES In environmental organization
To understand formal lens from the environment structure: acts as a dependent. To respond by implementing different types of organizational system to match. Having a spefic purpose.

Network perspective not just competing and collaborating with each other. Independent activities in their external environment. Building bridges and linkages to stakeholders that they act in their environment.

Culture lens is about having beliefs what they should like and what should they do. Desirable what is normative and decide what they should do and what they look like. Conformity gets them access to what the look like which is called legitimacy.

What is organizational environment?

In northern Ontario, they are known for oil sands and it is hard to get extraction and it was too expensive and technologies …. Extraction is becoming more feasible and opportunity to take advantage. NEW THREATS come in the horizon; it deals a great deal of pollution. It greatest more positive than negative sources.

Sectors of the organizational Environment

Elements that effect the environment. 1. Industry sector: look at the different competitors, scale of economies, 2. HR : labor markets, availability and demand for different time of works part-time and full time workers 3. Capital markets: looks at available funds for the markets. 4. Economic condition sector: what type of system, boom and bust cycle in a economy 5. Government economy: political system, legal rules and laws 6. Culture