企业边界的协同演化机制研究

Study on the Coevolution of Firm’s Boundaries

本文基于交易费用理论和资源基础观相融合的视角探讨了企业能力边界和规模边界的协同演化问题。协同演化的根本原因在于企业进行边界决策时需要对交易费用和知识整合成本进行综合的权衡,这直接体现在如何实现知识基础与产品范围的匹配上。总之,实现两者匹配的模式共有九种,相应的企业边界协同演化的表现形式也有九种。每一个企业都会根据自身的情况从中选择适合的边界演化形式。柯达公司的案例对此提供了说明。

This paper discusses the co-evolution of firm＇s capability boundary and scale boundary based on the integration of transaction costs economics （TCE） and resouree-based view （RBV）. The core reason is that the firm should have a comprehensive trade-off between the transaction costs and the knowledge integration costs when it makes a boundary decision. That is incarnated directly at how to match the knowledge base and the product scale. Generally speaking, it has nine patterns to realize the coupling of the knowledge base and the product scale, correspondingly the co-evolution of firm＇s boundaries have nine patterns. Every firm will choose one of these patterns based on its conditions, and which has been explained by the case of Eastman Kodak Company.