What does it mean to say that organizations are open systems? What are the defining characteristics of open systems?


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What does it mean to say that organizations are open systems? What are the defining characteristics of open systems?


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1. What does it mean to say that organizations are open systems? What are the defining characteristics of open systems?

2. In what ways are organizations dependent on their environments? Explain what might be meant by the sentence, “Organizations are a way of turning the environment into survival.”