互联网条件下企业边界变化的再认识——基于企业知识理论视角

Re-recognition of Firm Boundaries of the Internet Age——Based on A Knowledge-based Theory of the Firm

互联网条件下信息应用技术的迅猛发展,冲击着传统企业组织结构,对企业边界产生影响。基于企业知识理论视角,以问题求解为基本单元,构建分析企业边界变化的模型框架。企业实质是以自有知识体系为核心,通过配置各项生产要素组合来提供产品或服务的组织安排,企业边界即基于自身知识实现有形要素配置的能力边界。将此模型应用于分析现阶段经济新形态和企业组织新特征,发现引致企业边界变化的根本原因是:互联网技术应用使企业知识获取成本发生了相对变化,企业中一些环节知识倾向于"外购",而另一些环节则偏重于"自制"。企业知识发生结构性变革,企业组织边界出现新的变化。更为灵活的组织方式的选择,导致企业有形实体和无形实体分离。

In order to elaborate how knowledg boundary forms, this paper chooses the problem - solving as the basic analysis unit and constructs an analysis framwork based on the knowledge - based theory of the firm. The paper argues that, the essence of firm is an organaization to provide products or services by alloca-ting the combination of production factors, while the core of the firm is its knowledge system, and the boundary of firms is the ability boundary to allocate tangible factors based on their own knowledge. The model is applied to analyze the new economy and firm organization^ new features, revealing and explaining the fundamental rea-son of these changes is that the Internet technology leads to the cost of knowledge acquisition have changed rel-atively ,the firms tended to acquire outsourcing - knowledge, and then the knowledge boundary of firm shrinks, firms can only choose a more flexible organization mode, leading to the firm＇s tangible entities and in-tangible entities separated.