How the external environment shapes organizations: PEST analysis and variant tools versus how organizations negotiate with their external environment: Resource dependency theory. As this is both a summary and a synthesis, summarize the key ideas of all academic sources used by critically comparing and contrasting the main ideas and takeaways from all 2 articles. In addressing the presented scenario, the focus will be on using the presented insights to eventually recommend a policy-based solution to a problem, Apply the findings of the analytical review to a specific context, propose a theoretical treatment of the examined phenomenon by employing paradigms not explicitly discussed in the readings or treat such theoretical assertions in a different way than the cited auditors