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Summary Organizational Theory Lecture 4 OrganizationsPlanning:The organizations-environmental relationships:Contingency theory (complexity and rate of change)Resource dependence theoryInstitutional theoryPopulation ecology theoryBehavioural theory of firm Organization learning, change, and identityResource dependency theory (Pfeffer & Salancik, 1978) – “The external control of Organization – a resource dependence perspective”All organizations critically depend on external resources (raw materials, labour, capital, equipment,.