Their theory of organizational ecology describes how organizational connectivity, as revealed by the quality of the relationships among the people and the parts of the organization, provides the conduit through which the essential energy in the form of knowledge, information, ideas, innovation, and support sharing must flow.
Through the application of the theory of organizational ecology, Branson and Marra illustrate how a leader must grow their leadership knowledge and wisdom in order to develop the organization's people and culture so that it is fully able to accomplish the desired vision, mission and core purpose.
This volume summarizes the origins and development of the organization ecology approach to the study of interest representation and lobbying, and outlines an agenda for future research. Multiple authors from different countries and from different perspectives contribute their analysis of this research program. In this book, Branson and Marra argue that an ecologically comprehensive interpretation is needed for a more insightful explanation of the organisation's cultural dynamics and the essential role of the leader within this context.
They argue that there needs to be a focus on determining how well the school's culture is enabling the required interconnectivity, both internally within the school and externally between the school and its local community, in order to accomplish its vision and mission. This paper develops and tests a model of community success which takes into account the competition from other communities that share content or members.
Analysis of a longitudinal sample of Us View 3 excerpts, cites background. A Theory of Management Ecology. Systems theory, co-evolution and ecology show that taking care of resource relationships is … Expand. The purpose of this work is to analyze the relationship between leadership styles and effectiveness in small firms. The work considers a sample of top Sociology, Political Science.
University of Minnesota Ph. July Major: Sociology. Advisor: Dr. David Knoke. Corporate Social Responsibility and Entrepreneurship for Sustainability. Cluster-level legitimacy has implications on … Expand. Evolutionary theory framework to understand change in organizational routines. View 1 excerpt, cites background. This work reports on a study that investigated how the transformation of institutional logics—the tearing down of old logics and the construction of new ones—opens up possibilities for actors to ma The Population Ecology of Organizations.
American Journal of Sociology. A population ecology perspective on organization-environment relations is proposed as an alternative to the dominant adaptation perspective.
The strength of inertial pressures on organizational … Expand. Permanently Failing Organizations. View 1 excerpt, references background. According to this theory, existence of organizations is directly proportional to their access to resources they need, and its periphery is the only possible energy source.
The biggest problem in economics appears as scarce sources and their distribution Tomanbay, , p. This critical need for resources such as raw material, labor, capital, equipment, information etc. Lastly, age and size dependency theories, one of the most important theories of organizational ecology and examined based on demographic processes is discussed. According to these theories, the demise probability of organizations that have the advantage of age and size is lower.
The ideas lying behind this thought are that young organizations suffer from recency, and small organizations suffer from pettiness problems. Intra-organizational regulations and extra-organizational relationships of new organizations are less settled.
Briefly, young organizations are affected from their peripheral conditions quicker than old organizations and thus react faster Bilgin, , p. Old organizations have already solved these problems mostly. Their survival is the sign of them having solved their resource and legitimacy issues. Moreover, young organizations are obliged to solve these issues with scarce resources.
Briefly, the reality that organization size and age are in a positive relationship with its survival probability appears as a fact having acceptance in the literature as well Erdil et al.
Organizational ecology approach when examined in perspective of these theories, it is seen that the chosen organizations are protected and institutionalized by the periphery. These organizations become the dominant segments of the periphery. The most significant instances for this development are governments, schools and producers of products and services which became a part of the life.
Old organization communities are seen to institutionalize in three methods. First, developing infrastructures according to their community. Second, becoming a part of organizational infrastructures of communities in their periphery.
And third, to be recognized as legitimate by segments which would decide on their future. In conclusion, organizations that prove their survivability until that point are institutionalized and protected. When the process is examined in the scope of diversifying, selection and protection, the significance of cultural periphery becomes clear. Elements of socio — cultural periphery affects the entrepreneur who bears an important task in diversifying the organization communities.
It is quite important to examine interaction between genetic and cultural information in human populations to understand the innovativeness caused by the entrepreneur Sargut, , p. Organizations and organization communities undertake a competitive struggle for getting essential resources. This is a fight to survive. The periphery would determine the results of the competition.
Winners would keep marching, and losers would come to the end of their lives Sargut, , p. In this research, scales thought to be effective for Turkey are included. Thus scales of factors related to updated and internationally accepted research scope are combined in a detailed survey. The first part of the survey consists of demographic factors formed in order to determine the general specifications of the participators.
Just after that comes the company performance sections consisting of 12 questions, which will help to gather information about the performances of organizations. Then comes 27 questions for getting information on organization culture of businesses.
Lastly, there is outer periphery factor which is of 30 questions. Assessment options for statements regarding all the dimensions in the survey are as following: 1 Completely disagree, 2 Mostly disagree, 3 Partly disagree, 4 Neither agree, nor disagree, 5 Partly agree, 6 Mostly agree and 7 Completely agree.
In this research focused on textile companies, sampling have been done on companies which are active in İstanbul European Side. Surveys have been done by e-mail and face to face, and a total of surveys have been reached. In these researches conducted depending on Organizational Ecology subject, a portion of the surveyed companies should have survived and a portion of them should have lost their lives. This signifies how companies with an old history strengthen and survive depending also the effect of institutionalization.
According to these data it can be said that long—life businesses who had gained their legitimacy does not easily collapse. These businesses which are stable, change-resistant but have a specific organization culture, distribute the risk and survive with the organizational approach originating from being in different fields also appear to be the biggest competitors of the new founded companies.
Small and middle scale companies which so to say fall prey to current environment conditions and big companies, lose their lives despite the fact that they are newly founded due to the factors such as scarce resources, difficulty in competitiveness, problem of finding qualified employees, high number spent on advertising because of being unknown.
In light of these data, power of the sector is mostly in the hands of elementary school graduates. Administrators have begun working in this sector in young ages and developed themselves laboriously. There are many elementary school graduates especially among middle aged and older administrators. Especially in this sector, it is also a reality that young people are employed, thus the labor costs of businesses are reduced. Based on the data in Table 5, it is possible to say most of the participators in scope of the research are high school graduates who could not maintain their businesses after they found it.
It is possible to say that in this sector high school graduates are unemployed, change job or switched to another sector. It is not difficult to understand why high school graduates cannot find jobs compared to elementary school graduates in the sector when the cost of elementary school graduates to businesses is taken into consideration. When these values are checked, variables shall be higher than the value of 0, which is accepted in the literature. As seen in Table 6, values of variables in the research are pretty above this value.
But meaningful results have been acquired only in analyses concerning all businesses, other analyses have been considered coincidental.
In the correlation analysis including all firms active and inactive, it is seen that adaptation factor affects motivation, look on customer services, self look, reliability, financial and growth performances directly and densely; but look on competitors directly and in low level.
It is seen that motivation factor directly and densely affects adaptation, look on outer elements, competitors and self, financial and growth performances. It is seen that the factor of look on customer services directly and densely affects adaptation, motivation, self look, financial and growth performances. It is seen that the factor of look on competitors directly and densely affects motivation and reliability; while it affects adaptation and growth performance directly and in low level.
It is seen that reliability factor directly and densely affects adaptation, motivation, look on customer services, look on competitors, financial and growth performances. It is seen that self look factor directly and densely affects adaptation, motivation, reliability, look on customer services, financial and growth performances. It is seen that the factor of financial performance directly and densely affects adaptation, motivation, reliability, look on outer elements and self and growth performance.
And the growth performance factor directly and densely affects adaptation, motivation, look on outer elements and self and financial performance; while it affects look on competitors and reliability factors directly and in low level. No meaningful effect between dependent variables and other independent variables appeared as a result of the analyses conducted.
This means factors like motivation, look on customer services, look on competitors and self look does not affect financial and growth performances. Either administrators are unaware of this fact; or textile sector in Turkey are far away from concepts like professionalism, institutionalizing and organization culture in administration and management.
When we look at the effect of adaptation factor, being the first model, on financial and growth performances, R2 values were found as 0, and 0, When we look at the effect of reliability factor, being the second model, on financial and growth performances, R2 values were found as 0, and 0, But since all the questions measuring the reliability factor in the scope of the research were reverse-scaled, Beta coefficients with negative values should be interpreted by converting to positive.
Thus, as reliability increases, the financial and growth performance of the company are affected positively.
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