逆全球化情境下企业的组织韧性形成机制——基于华为公司的案例研究

The Formation Mechanism of Organizational Resilience of Enterprises in the Context of Anti-globalization: A Case Study Based on Huawei

组织韧性是组织在面临逆境时表现出的耐受度和恢复力。在逆全球化情境下,企业面临的全球政治风险激增,本文采用纵向单案例研究方法,以遭受美国制裁的华为公司为例,在具有典型时代特征的逆境事件下,探索中国高科技企业组织韧性的形成机制。研究结果表明:在全球政治风险下,组织韧性高度依赖于风险萌芽阶段的识别能力;组织韧性基础、风险文化与意识能促进企业在识别出全球政治风险后选择激活韧性;增加灵活性是韧性激活的首选方向,增加冗余是高风险环境下的韧性激活策略;在他国政府发起的政治打击下,企业各子系统的韧性共同决定了组织的整体韧性表现。本文将他国的逆全球化举动纳入可能造成组织业务中断的逆境事件,构建了中国高科技企业抵御全球政治风险的理论模型,为中国高科技企业在特殊时期保持组织韧性提供了新的见解和启示。

Drawn from a literature review,this paper extracts the research framework of the organizational resilience response process under global political risks,innovatively proposes the concepts of resilience foundation and resilience activation,which are ignored by the existing literature,and introduces them into the framework.Based on this framework,this paper adopts the vertical single case study method and chooses Huawei,which is subjected to U.S.sanctions,as example,to explore the formation mechanism of the organizational resilience of Chinese high-tech enterprises in the context of anti-globalization.The results show that:(1)Organizational resilience under global political risks depends highly on the ability to identify risks in the initial stage.(2)Resilience foundation and risk culture can explain whether enterprises choose to activate resilience after identifying political risks.(3)Increasing flexibility is the preferred direction for resilience activation,while increasing redundancy is a strategy of resilience activation in high-risk environments.(4)Resilience of each subsystem of the enterprise determines the overall resilience performance of the enterprise under political sanctions initiated by other countries.This paper has the following theoretical contributions:Firstly,it incorporates anti-globalization in other countries into unfavorable events that may cause organizational business interruption,constructs a theoretical model for Chinese enterprises to resist global political risks,and reveals the formation mechanism of organizational resilience in such special periods.Secondly,it innovatively introduces two constructs,resilience foundation and resilience activation,into the researches of the field of organizational resilience,and launches an in-depth analysis.Finally,it expands the scope of researches in the field of political sanctions,and explains how to maintain organizational resilience under political sanctions from the perspective of sanctioned enterprises,which supplements the existing literature.In addition,this paper provides the following enlightenment for Chinese high-tech enterprises that may be affected by global political risks:Proactive risk identification must be initiated,resilience foundation should be improved,resilience response should be activated in a timely manner,and strategic adjustments should be implemented accordingly.