组织与制度的共同演化:组织制度理论研究的脉络剖析及问题初探

The Co-evolving of Organizations and Institutions: Dissecting and Exploring the Institutional Theory of Organization

组织制度理论已经成为组织研究中理解、分析和预测组织行为的一个重要视角。但随着组织制度理论研究的不断深入,其产生的议题和概念也呈现分散化的趋势,因此有必要对组织制度理论这一领域的研究进行梳理。根据制度作为行动约束和行动结果两大研究线索,本文剖析了组织制度理论研究的逻辑脉络,厘清了组织制度理论研究的逻辑框架,即组织与制度之间的互动是围绕着组织合法性所展开的一种共同演化的关系,组织既受到制度的约束,同时也能通过行动改变制度的安排。在此基础上,本文对组织制度理论研究中存在的一些困惑和问题进行讨论,以期待为进一步的研究及应用提供借鉴与启示。

Institutional theory of organization has become one of the most important perspectives of understanding,analyzing and predicting the organizational behavior in organization research. With the in-depth development of institutional research,the propositions and concepts tend to be scattered. Therefore,it is necessary to review the researches on the institutional theory of organization. Following two main leads that institutions serve as constrains on actions and as results of actions,we dissect the logical venation of institutional theory and clarified its logical frame,which shows that the interaction between organizations and institutions is the co-evolving relationship based on organizational legitimacy. Organizations are not only constrained by institutions,but capable of changing institutions through actions. After that,we discuss the confusions and issues on the current institutional theory research,in order to provide references and shed light on the future researches.