The Suppression of Technology As a Strategy for Controlling Resource Dependence
基于美国反垄断法数据，论证企业通过压制技术来控制资源依赖的策略，并分析具体战术及其选择条件，对组织战略和反垄断研究者有参考价值。
For their helpful comments and suggestions, thanks are due to Stewart Clegg and three anonymous ASQ reviewers. An earlier version of this paper was presented at the annual conference of the Australian and Pacific Researchers in Organization Studies, University of Melbourne, Melbourne, 1986. The resource dependence approach to organization-environment relations concerns in part the strategy and tactics whereby organizations seek to control aspects of their environment. This study utilizes and extends the resource dependence perspective and establishes the existence of a strategy that the corporate strategy literature ignores. Data from United States antitrust law is used here to sustain the argument that suppression of technology is one strategy used to control resource dependence. Specific tactics and their characteristics are identified, along with their objectives and the processes whereby these may be achieved. The paper shows that the selection of specific tactics is likely to depend on both the particular objective sought and the current judicial interpretation of these areas of law. Recent changes in the latter are producing a situation conducive to the utilization of patent-based tactics.'