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born 1943 United States

Howard E. Aldrich (born 1943) is an American sociologist, and Professor of Sociology at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, known for his work on "Organizations and Environments."

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Organizations are goal-directed, boundary-maintaining, activity systems.

A niche is created by the intersection of resource constraints— an abstract resource space consisting of a unique combination of resources (information, access to materials, customers, and so on) that could permit a form to survive there. Forms thus either take advantage of a niche resource space" or fail.

p. 40; cited in: Frank Marutollo (1990)

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