权力的嵌入性分析--国有资产重组下的企业结盟

Analyzing the Embeddedness of Power:Business Alliance under the Reorganization of State-Owned Assets

本文对企业行动者之间的权力关系、策略互动及其所嵌入的社会网络与制度环境提供了一个解释框架。文章运用组织决策学派的"权力"概念,对国有资产重组下的国有资产经营公司与民企联盟的结盟进行了分析。在"嵌入性"概念的基础上,作者认为,作为结盟前提的权力嵌入于社会网络之中,并且嵌入于中国市场化改革与政体连续性的制度背景之中,因此给权力关系与结盟带来了不确定性。文章试图把"权力"带回企业结盟分析的中心,在理论上对格兰诺维特的社会网络嵌入与倪志伟的制度嵌入进行综合,提出应洞察行动者所嵌入的社会网络以及更为广泛的制度因素对企业行动者的影响。

This paper presents an explanatory framework for investigating the power relationships among business actors and their strategic interactions, as well as their embedded social networks and institutional settings. Grounded on the ＂power＂ analysis from the French School of Organizational Sociology （FSoS）, this paper provides an in-depth analysis of the business alliance between a state-owned asset operating organization and a private-enterprise group, which was undertaken in the reorganization of state-owned assets in China. With the concept of ＂embeddedness,＂ the author contends that, power, as an indispensable prerequisite for any business alliance, is embedded in social networks, and more broadly, in the institutional environment of the market-oriented reform and regime continuity in China, which in turn brings uncertainty to power and alliance. This paper contributes at the theoretical level by bringing the ＂power＂ analysis back into the business alliance literature, integrating Granovetter＇ s network embedde.dness and Nee＇s institutional embeddedness, and proposing to have close attention paid to social networks and broader institutional surroundings within which the business actors are embedded and being influenced.