The Dynamism of Organizational Practices: The Role of Employment Blueprints
研究了创始人雇佣蓝图如何影响组织实践的动态性，即维持和变革实践的能力，通过美国、荷兰和英国三家管理咨询公司的案例，发现工程或承诺导向的蓝图有助于适应，而专制蓝图则不然。
This paper explores how founders’ blueprints affect the dynamism of organizational practices, and in particular the capability to sustain as well as change practices. First, a theoretical argument is developed on the critical role of founders’ blueprints of the employment model, which are difficult to alter and mark firms’ future paths by affecting the dynamism of organizational practices over an extended period of time. Subsequently, case studies of several organizational practices in three management consulting firms in the USA , the N etherlands and the UK illustrate how founders’ conceptions of the employment relationship (i.e. their employment model) affect the way in which competing demands of continuity and renewal are addressed. Moreover, engineering‐ or commitment‐oriented blueprints appear to facilitate the capability to adapt, while autocratic blueprints do not.