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ORGANIZATIONAL FIELDS

ORGANIZATIONAL FIELDS. PAST, PRESENT, AND FUTURE (Wooten and Hoffman 2008) Presented by Alejandra Marin Organizational Theory Seminar. ORGANIZATIONAL FIELDS (OF). Agenda for the discussion Setting a common language: Definition of organizational field

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ORGANIZATIONAL FIELDS

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  1. ORGANIZATIONAL FIELDS PAST, PRESENT, AND FUTURE (Wooten and Hoffman 2008) Presented by Alejandra Marin Organizational Theory Seminar

  2. ORGANIZATIONAL FIELDS (OF) Agenda for the discussion • Setting a common language: • Definition of organizational field • Evolution of the concept organizational fields • Questions relating OF and big questions in OT

  3. Examples of OF • Healthcare field: physicians, medical groups, individuals, insurance companies, health plans. • Professional business services: accounting firms, law firms, management consultancy firms, clients, and regulators. • Fine arts museums: artists, galleries, consumers.

  4. Definition of OF • Dimaggio and Powell (1983) define the organizational field as "those organizations that, in the aggregate, constitute a recognized area of institutional life; key suppliers, resource and product consumers, regulatory agencies, and other organizations that produce similar services or products" • P. 130: “the field is ‘a community of organizations that partakes of a common meaning system and whose participants interact more frequently and fatefully with one another than with actors outside the field’” (Scott, 1995) • P. 138 “relational spaces that provide an organization with the opportunity to involve itself with other actors” (Wooten, 2006) • What are the consequences of these definitions? • What is the different between OF and industry (five forces model)

  5. EVOLUTION

  6. Questions • p. 130: “the central construct of neo-institutional theory has been the OF”, Why? • What is the relationship between an organization and an OF? • How can the study of OF shed lights on how companies take decisions?

  7. How the study of OF inform these questions? • Why organizations survive? • Why and how organizations change? • Why some organizations are different?

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