论企业与市场的相互融合

Amalgamation of the Firm and the Market

当代经济组织发展的新趋势是企业与市场相互融合。一方面,企业吸收市场的比较优势,在经营层次上利用市场机制替代科层机制,在战略层次上用模块协调代替行政协调,是权威和价格这两种资源配置方式的有机融合。另一方面,市场利用企业的比较优势,在管理上引入科层机制来提高交易效率和降低交易费用。总之,企业中有市场,市场中有企业,企业和市场都是一种以模块化运作为基础的网络。

The new trend of modern economic organization is that the firm and the market amalgamate each other. On the one hand, the firm absorbs the comparative advantage of the market by substituting hierarchy with market mechanism at the level of operation and substituting administrative coordination with integration of modularity at the level of strategy, which is the amalgamation of authority and price mechanism; on the other hand, the market absorbs the comparative advantage of the firm, inducting hierarchy in management to improve transaction efficiency.In a word, the firm and the market incorporate each other and they are the networks based on modularity.