Organization Environment Theory

Study of how managers handle relationships of the organization with the external environment.
Open Systems theory
1. Daniel Katz, Robert Kahn y James Thompson
2. An organization is an open system that takes resources from abroad and converts them into goods and services that returned to the environment to be purchased by customers.
3. Unlike closed systems that tend to lose the Ability you Control and therefore, disintegrates and dissolves, because they ignore the external environment .
The Importance of studying the environment Manifested itself in the 1960s , with the formulation of the theory of open systems and the theory of contingencies.
Contingency Theory
1. Tom Burns, Stalker, Paul Lawrence y Jay Lorsch
2. Idea main is that there is an optimal way to organize: The structure of an organization depends on the environment in which it operates
3. The way managers design the hierarchy, choose a control system, or decide how to lead, depends on the characteristics of the organizational environment.

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