A Future for Organization Theory: Living in and Living with Changing Organizations
诊断组织理论领域停滞不前的困境,提出三个研究问题:理解变化中的组织、在其中生活以及与之共存,并反思现有理论构建方法可能阻碍领域复兴。
We believe that the field of organization theory is adrift. In sailing jargon, we are “in irons”—stalled and making little headway toward understanding organizations and their place in our lives. We first attempt to diagnose our maladies and then, in this light, offer three broad research questions that just might reinvigorate our work: First, how can we understand today’s changing organizations? Second, how can we live in these organizations? And third, how can we best live with them? We close by calling attention to how our familiar approaches to building and testing theory might hamper any attempt to revitalize our field.