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The External Control of Organizations: A Resource Dependence Perspective.
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This article is published in Contemporary Sociology.The article was published on 1979-07-01. It has received 12500 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Resource dependence theory & Perspective (graphical).read more
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Managing Legitimacy: Strategic and Institutional Approaches
TL;DR: This article synthesize the large but diverse literature on organizational legitimacy, highlighting similarities and disparities among the leading strategic and institutional approaches, and identify three primary forms of legitimacy: pragmatic, based on audience self-interest; moral, based upon normative approval; and cognitive, according to comprehensibility and taken-for-grantedness.
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The Relational View: Cooperative Strategy and Sources of Interorganizational Competitive Advantage
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TL;DR: In this paper, the authors argue that an increasingly important unit of analysis for understanding competitive advantage is the relationship between firms and identify four potential sources of interorganizational competitive advantage: relation-specific assets, knowledge-sharing routines, complementary resources/capabilities, and effective governance.
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Toward a Theory of Stakeholder Identification and Salience: Defining the Principle of who and What Really Counts
TL;DR: In this paper, a theory of stakeholder identification and saliency based on stakeholders possessing one or more of three relationship attributes (power, legitimacy, and urgency) is proposed, and a typology of stakeholders, propositions concerning their saliency to managers of the firm, and research and management implications.
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Organizational information requirements, media richness and structural design
Richard L. Daft,Robert H. Lengel +1 more
TL;DR: Models are proposed that show how organizations can be designed to meet the information needs of technology, interdepartmental relations, and the environment to both reduce uncertainty and resolve equivocality.
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An Examination of the Nature of Trust in Buyer–Seller Relationships:
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors integrate theory developed in several disciplines to determine five cognitive processes through which industrial buyers can develop trust of a supplier firm and its salesperson and their salesperson.