组织能动应对内部制度复杂性的权力机制——基于西交利物浦大学的案例研究

A Study on the Power Mechanism of Organization's Agentic Response to Internal Institutional Complexity:Case Study Based on Xi'an Jiaotong-Liverpool University

组织如何有效应对内部制度复杂性是目前学界与业界关注的热点问题。现有研究虽然认为组织需要能动应对内部制度复杂性并提出一些个体层实现机制,但如何从组织层面整体实现能动应对内部制度复杂性的机制尚不明确。从权力结构出发,通过对西交利物浦大学进行探索性单案例分析,挖掘组织能动应对内部制度复杂性的权力机制模型。结果发现,能动应对内部制度复杂性的关键在于不耦合的认知与实践双重权力结构:组织层级式权力实践结构与网络式权力认知结构不但分别区隔、整合了多重制度逻辑诉求冲突,而且共同激励多重制度逻辑的持续弹性混合,能够有效应对内部制度复杂性。

How to effectively respond to internal institutional complexity is a hot topic for both research and management.Although recent studies point out agentic response is essential to organization's effective strategies facing internal institutional complexity and several individual-level mechanisms have been raised,the organization-level enabling mechanism for agentic response is still unclear.From power structure perspective,this paper adopts an in-depth single-case study on Xi'an Jiaotong-Liverpool University,and reveals the power mechanism that organization agentic responds to internal institutional complexity.Findings show that the key to the agentic response is cognitively and practically uncoupled dual power structure.Organization's hierarchical practical power structure and networked cognitive power structure not only compartmentalize and integrate conflicting institutional logics'demands respectively,but also together motivate continuous flexible hybridization of multiple institutional logics,thus realizing effectively agentic response to internal institutional complexity.