Across
- 3. Method for predicting how variables will change the future
- 6. All relevant forces inside a firm’s boundaries, such as its managers, employees, resources, and organization culture.
- 8. The general environment; includes governments, economic conditions, and other fundamental factors that generally affect all organizations
- 9. of various characteristics of the people who make up groups or other social units
- 11. are aspects of the culture that can be seen
- 13. Strategies that an organization acting on its own uses to change some aspect of its current environment
- 15. Creating supplies of excess resources in case of unpredictable needs
- 16. Entering a new market or industry with an existing expertise
- 17. A customer who purchases raw materials or wholesale products before selling them to final customers
- 19. that continually change the boundaries for their task environments by seeking new products and markets, diversifying and merging, or acquiring new enterprises
- 20. The immediate environment surrounding a firm; includes suppliers, customers, rivals, and the like
- 22. Searching for and sorting through information about the environment
- 25. The managing of the network of facilities and people that obtain materials from outside the organization, transform them into products, and distribute them to customers
- 26. Methods for adapting the technical core to changes in the environment
- 27. Information that helps managers determine how to compete better
- 29. are the strongly held beliefs within an organization that influence employee behavior
- 32. Conditions that prevent new companies from entering an industry
- 33. are the underlying characteristics that shape culture
- 34. The process of comparing an organization’s practices and technologies with those of other companies
- 35. One firm buying another
Down
- 1. All relevant forces outside a firm’s boundaries, such as competitors, customers, the government, and the economy
- 2. that stay within a stable product domain as a strategic maneuver
- 4. The process of sharing power with employees, thereby enhancing their confidence in their ability to perform their jobs and their belief that they are influential contributors to the organization
- 5. A firm selling one or more businesses
- 7. Strategies used by two or more organizations working together to manage the external environment
- 10. Organizations that are affected by, and that affect, their environment
- 12. A narrative that describes a particular set of future conditions
- 14. Lack of information needed to understand or predict the future
- 18. Those who purchase products in their finished form
- 21. An organization’s conscious efforts to change the boundaries of its task environment
- 23. One or more companies combining with another
- 24. The set of important assumptions about the organization and its goals and practices that members of the company share
- 28. Fixed costs buyers face when they change suppliers
- 30. Leveling normal fluctuations at the boundaries of the environment
- 31. A firm’s investment in a different product, business, or geographic area