Creating a Hybrid Organizational Form from Parental Blueprints: The Emergence and Evolution of Knowledge Firms
通过一家新生物技术企业的案例，研究混合组织形式如何从两种母体组织中继承关键内部劳动过程，并分析这种继承如何增强新形式的生存概率，对组织生态学和知识管理研究者有参考价值。
Using a case study of a new biotechnology firm, we examine the formation of a new organizational form as a hybrid emerging from two `parent' organizational forms. We focus on key internal labor processes that are selected from existing organizations and replicated in the hybrid form and argue that this inheritance process strengthens the likelihood of survival of the new form. We propose that analyzing the micro-level processes of inheritance contributes to the understanding of macro-level phenomena of organizational births and deaths, examined by population ecologists.