The contingent effects of differentiation and integration on corporate entrepreneurship
研究了组织分化与整合对企业创业水平的联合效应如何受组织规模和环境动态性调节，发现小组织和动态环境中整合的正效应会减弱。
This paper develops a contingency view regarding the effects of structural differentiation and integration on levels of corporate entrepreneurship. Integrating notions of benefits and costs resulting from integration with structural contingency theory, we argue that the joint effects of structural differentiation and integration on corporate entrepreneurship levels are moderated by organizational size and environmental dynamism. Our findings from a time‐separated sample demonstrate that in smaller organizations and more dynamic environments, the positive effects of integration on the structural differentiation‐corporate entrepreneurship relationship strongly diminish. As such, with this research we begin to identify contingencies that influence the corporate entrepreneurship levels observed among firms striving to balance the needs for structural differentiation and integration . Copyright © 2014 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.