团队外部信息搜索的特性及多层次促发因素综述

Overview on the Characteristics of Team External Information Search and Its Multiple Levels of Triggering Factors

[目的/意义]知识经济时代,外部信息搜索是组织实施开放式创新从而获得竞争优势的必要环节。然而,目前对外部信息搜索的研究主要集中在组织和个体层面,团队外部信息搜索研究相对薄弱。[方法/过程]在国内外相关研究的理论综述基础上,明晰了在组织、个体和团队三个层面上信息搜索的概念,阐述了团队进行外部信息搜索时所跨越边界的复杂性,以及与组织层面外部搜索及个体信息搜索的动态交叉嵌套性。[结果/结论]根据三个层面之间自上而下的传导机制和自下而上的聚合机制,从个体、团队、组织内部和组织外部四个层面对团队外部信息搜索的多层次促发因素进行了体系构建,最后探讨了现有研究的局限及未来的研究方向。

[Purpose/Significance] In the era of knowledge economy,external information search is a necessary step for an organization to implement open innovation and achieve competitive advantage. the research on external information search is mainly at organizational and individual levels,whereas the research on team external information search is relatively lacked. [ Method/Process] Based on the domestic and international literature,this paper demonstrates the concepts of information search at the organizational,individual and team levels,and then illustrates that team information search has boundary complexity and dynamically nested nature interacting with organizational and in-dividual information search. [ Result/Conclusion] Proposing a top-down transmission mechanism and a bottom-up aggregation mecha-nism,we establish a theoretical framework for triggering factors of team external information search at individual,team,organization,and environment level. the limitations of current research and future research directions are discussed in the end.