组织模块化及其挑战:组织形态演进的思考

本文基于现有研究,分析了组织形态从家庭作坊到工厂组织,再到公司制组织,并最终进化为模块化组织的演进历程,认为资本增值性、技术进步、市场因素(需求、贸易、竞争)、交易费用和新经济元素(信息技术、互联网络、知识资本)等因素影响并推进着组织形态变迁,并最终催生了模块化组织。其中,技术进步是组织形态向模块化组织演进的关键动因。技术模块化引起的价值链解构、竞合机制的形成、顾客直接参与价值分配是模块化组织价值释放效应的表现,这将使以交易费用为理论基石的传统企业组织理论受到挑战。

Organizational Modularity and Its Challenge: Reflections on the Evolution of Organizational Form

Based on the existing research and the analysis of organizational form evolution,from household factory to corporation organization,and to modular organization,we figure out that capital increment,technology progress,market factors(demand,trade,competition),transaction cost and new economic elements (information technology,worldwide net,knowledge capital) are the factors which impulse the evolution of organization,and technology progress is the key point.Value chain breaking up,the mechanism of competition and cooperation,custom participating in value distribution are the three manifestations of value release of modular organization,which will lead the traditional enterprise organizational theory with the foundation of transaction cost to be challenged.