Research Note: 'Contradictory Couplings': Culture and the Synchronization of Opponents
这篇研究笔记探讨了组织文化中对手被迫在同一领域共存时，如何通过同步化避免破坏性冲突，并分析了同步化的机制与条件。
Building upon recent discussions in the literature on the inherent duality of social and organizational existence, this research note approaches organizational culture through the theoretical construct of the synchronization of opponents. Where opponents are constrained to exist within the same territory, there is a functional requirement for such opponents to synchronize in order to avoid those collisions which are destructive of the energies and resources of both parties without generating benefit for either. This research note explores some of the mechanisms by which, and the conditions under which, such synchronization of opponents takes place.