We increasingly hear the alarm siren signaling that organizations cannot endure - much less flourish - by continuing to use frameworks. Lately, one framework that has emerged to illuminate networked systems work optimally centers on environmental thinking and its particular application to organizations. The result is that an 'organizational ecosystem' functions substantially as a biological ecosystem does, demonstrating both unlikeable and desirable properties that are similar to what we see in nature. The authors discuss four substantive likenesses and four essential between biological and organizational ecosystems and in doing this, deconstruct this metaphor that is eminent.
Organizations as Ecosystems Probing the Value of a Metaphor Case Study Solution
PUBLICATION DATE: January 01, 2014 PRODUCT #: ROT226-HCB-ENG
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