构建企业的边界:权力与能力的过程观——嘉华公司案例研究

本文关注组织边界的权力观和能力观,基于纵向和过程探索两个概念间关联与企业边界演化。纵向考察了一个在行业中保持10年快速发展的企业案例,对企业边界演化进行一个过程研究,揭示权力观与能力观被交替强调的关系,得到企业边界构建的演进趋势图。研究发现,双过程连续分布在企业发展的各个阶段,分别表现为权力观/能力观主导、"权力观-能力观"相互转移和确立企业边界三个过程。研究的理论贡献在于,为组织边界理论带来了动态非平衡理解和过程观,展示出企业在形成自己边界过程中两种不同行为逻辑的交替与协同。在战略性视角下,本研究揭示出权力观与能力观的内在联系的"双元性",阐释了"双元性"下的"权力-能力"转换与交替主导的非平衡过程规律,得到了两种观点的协同演进,强调了企业家精神在推动演进趋势持续向上的作用。

Constructing Firms' Boundaries from A Process View of Power and Competence:A Case Study of Jiahua Company

The purpose of this paper is to provide a deeper understanding of organizational bound-aries with two distinct conceptions of boundaries, power and competence. A research program that focuses on relationships among boundary conceptions is likely to be longitudinal and process based. As a step in that direction, we investigate the case of a company with a lO-year history of rapid development in its industrial sector. This empirical study allows us to propose a process view on boundaries, characterized by an alternative stressing between power and competence, fol-lowed by an evolutionary tendency graph. We find that the process continuously exists in each de-velopment stage of the firm, displayed by power/competence dominance, ＂power-competence＂ shifting, and identifying firm＇s boundary. Our core contribution is to provide dynamic imbalance insights and a process view into the theory of organization boundary. We add to our understand- ing of alternation and coordination of two different behavior logics how firms shape their bounda- ries. With the strategic perspective, our findings shed light on ＂ambidexterity＂ of the inherent relationship between power and competence. We contribute to constructing process of boundary with a dynamic imbalance essence of ＂power-competence＂ shifting and alternative dominance. Ad- ditionally, our results also add to our understanding of co-evolutionary and stress the motivation of entrepreneur in the progressive evolutionary process.