Subject category:
Strategy and General Management
Published in:
2000
Length: 20 pages
Data source: Published sources
Abstract
Students are being exposed to various theories that relate to the conduct of organisations. One goal of this exposure is to help the students develop their own theories of why organisations have varying levels of performance. In this way, they learn how to describe organisations, evaluate and predict their behaviour and to prescribe what they should do to increase competitiveness. Most of the theories expose the students to information using one of two main views of the organisation - economic or behavioural. The purpose of this case is to suggest yet a third view, ie the Institutional View. This raises provocative questions about organisations and provides a more complete analysis of understanding organisational performance. The institutional view is particularly useful to examine why performance differences exist across countries and why these differences matter in strategic assessment.
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Abstract
Students are being exposed to various theories that relate to the conduct of organisations. One goal of this exposure is to help the students develop their own theories of why organisations have varying levels of performance. In this way, they learn how to describe organisations, evaluate and predict their behaviour and to prescribe what they should do to increase competitiveness. Most of the theories expose the students to information using one of two main views of the organisation - economic or behavioural. The purpose of this case is to suggest yet a third view, ie the Institutional View. This raises provocative questions about organisations and provides a more complete analysis of understanding organisational performance. The institutional view is particularly useful to examine why performance differences exist across countries and why these differences matter in strategic assessment.