A complexity perspective of a meta-organization team: The role of destabilizing and stabilizing tensions
研究元组织团队如何运作，基于复杂性理论分析团队面临的竞争性张力，提出失稳与稳定两种张力使系统处于平衡与混沌之间，从而提升团队有效性。
Organizations face the reality of needing to work with other organizations to share resources and responsibilities in pursuit of common goals. However, there is limited research regarding the complex nature of meta-organizations. Our purpose is to identify how a meta-organization team operates. We define a meta-organization team and rely on complexity theory to explain the dynamics within the meta-organization team we observed. Based on our analysis, this team was exposed to competing tensions that forced the team into a far-from-equilibrium state and allowed the team to be effective. We propose two types of tensions on complex systems: destabilizing and stabilizing. These tensions keep a system between the boundaries of equilibrium and chaos. As a result of this study, we provide details of key findings and implications of these tensions.