Strategy as guided evolution

In this paper, we build on a detailed case study and the theories of evolution in social and cultural systems and intraorganizational ecology to develop a model of strategy as guided evolution. Its primary distinctions from earlier models of organizational and intraorganizational ecology lie in (i) the incorporation of an important—yet realistic—role of top management in shaping the direction and outcomes of the evolutionary processes within firms, and (ii) the incorporation of human and social capital as a critical unit of selection within such processes. We describe the model and discuss the evolutionary and ecological processes associated with it. Copyright © 2000 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.     

《中国工业经济》学术影响力研究——基于2000—2007年CNKI数据库的分析

本文构建了学术期刊影响力评价的指标体系,并在此基础上运用词频分析、共词分析、社会网络分析、信息可视化等文献计量学方法,重点分析了《中国工业经济》近年来对相关高校、相关学科、相关研究领域、相关学术期刊的影响,以及高影响力的作者和高影响力的论文等多方面的情况,以便于编者和学者更全面地了解和评价《中国工业经济》的学术影响力,了解中国工业经济研究领域研究力量的分布以及该领域学术研究的发展动态。     

建筑承包企业的战略生态管理研究

建筑承包企业都有许多复杂的关系网络,在每个网点上企业都有自身的战略规划。结合企业关系管理和企业战略生态管理的相关理论和知识,构建出建筑承包企业的战略生态管理模式。在这种战略管理模式下,建筑承包企业可以很好地进行战略管理,提高企业在整个战略生态圈内竞争地位与企业的核心竞争力。     

Emotions and the spatialisation of social relations in text‐based computer‐mediated communication

This paper advances our knowledge of emotions in virtual teams using text‐based computer‐mediated communication. The literature's preoccupation with the absence of physical cues of emotion has meant we lack both an understanding of how emotions are co‐constructed through interaction and an explanation of their role in the social relations of virtual teams. Adopting a communicative view of emotion, we present the findings of a longitudinal study of a virtual team within a transnational collaborative project. We present three aspects of interaction that demonstrate how team members' experience and understanding of the emotions expressed through, and suppressed from, text‐based messages are influenced by the styles and patterns of interaction enabled by technology. Where our three aspects tend towards stasis, we argue that emotion provides a temporal dimension to a process of ‘spatialising’ social relations by connoting what should change, or what should endure, between people.     

The red queen in organizational evolution

We propose that competitive success and failure evolve through an ecology of organizational learning. An organization facing competition is likely to engage in a search for ways to improve performance. When successful, this search results in learning that is likely to increase the organization's competitive strength, which in turn triggers learning in its rivals—consequently making them stronger competitors and so again triggering learning in the first organization. We elaborate the conditions under which this self-reinforcing process, known in evolutionary theory as the ‘Red Queen,’ is likely to be adaptive or maladaptive. Adaptive consequences are predicted only for recently experienced learning. Experience in the more distant past of an organization's life, by contrast, is predicted to backfire into a ‘competency trap.’ We predict maladaptive consequences when organizations face many, varied cohorts of rivals. We empirically distinguish these effects using ecological models of competition. Estimates of organizational failure rales reveal a Red Queen among Illinois banks, and support our predictions.