复杂组织目标演变与组织成长——一个纵向案例研究

Goal Evolution and Organizational Growth for Complex Organization——A Longitudinal Case Study

组织目标是制定组织战略的基础和前提。文章以原宝钢(现宝武)集团为例,运用共演模型探讨了组织目标由简单到复杂的演变过程和机理。通过纵向案例研究发现:第一,随着组织与环境的复杂化,组织目标体系也越来越复杂,表现为内容、结构和目标间关系的复杂;第二,复杂组织目标是由内外部环境需求共同决定的多"盟主-成员"型目标体系,具有多样性、网络层次性、竞合性、协同性、动态适应性等复杂性特征;第三,复杂组织的成长是组织目标、外部驱动力量、内部驱动力量互相作用、互相依赖、协同演变的结果;复杂组织不断进行目标体系的内容调整、结构改变和关系变化的过程,实质上是组织商业生态空间拓展、生存实力积累与合法性提高的过程;第四,在中国特殊的情境下,复杂组织目标演变具有目标依赖和目标创新并存、市场机制和非市场机制并存的特殊复杂性特征。

Organizational goals are the basis and prerequisite for making organizational strategy. This paper, taking Pre-Baost- eel Group as case, using the co-evolution model, explores the process and mechanism of goal evolution of complex organization. The longitudinal case study shows that： the first, with the complexity of organization and its environments, organizational goal evolves from simple goal to complex goal system, including content, structure, and relationship among sub-goals; the second, the goal sys- tem of complex organization, crucially influenced by requirements from internal and external environments, presents the feature of multiple ＂leader-member＂ pattern, and shows the characteristics of diversity, network hierarchy, co-competition, synergy, dynamic adaptability and the like; the third, the growth of complex organization is a co-evolutionary and interactive process of organizational goal system with key external environment forces, internal organizational resources and capabilities. The process that complex organ- ization constantly amends the contents and structure of goal system and the relationships among sub-goals is essentially the process to extend ecological business space, enhance survival strength, and improve organizational legitimacy; （4）under China＇s special cir- cumstance, the evolution of goal system for complex organization shows special complexity, such as coexistence of path dependence and path innovation, coexistence of market mechanism and non-market mechanism, and the like.