Identity and Non-Identity Thinking: Dialectical Critique of the Transaction Cost Theory of the Modern Corporation
指出管理学和社会科学中主流的同一性思维存在固有偏见,并以钱德勒和威廉姆斯的公司理论为例,引入阿多诺的否定辩证法作为替代视角。
Identity thinking is the dominant mode of thinking in the management and social sciences. This paper contends that identity thinking is a mode of reasoning that contains certain inherent biases that inevitably lead to a partisan construal of the management research agenda. The prejudicial tendencies of identity thinking are prevalent in Chandler's and Williamson's theories of the origins and evolution of the modern corporation. We use the theories both to highlight the operation of identity thinking, and to introduce an alternative: Adorno's negative dialectics.