On the structure of business incubators: de-coupling issues and the mis-alignment of managerial incentives
本文利用组织理论工具解码商业孵化器的内部结构，发现其存在解耦问题和管理激励与实际孵化角色错位的属性，这些属性赋予孵化器仪式价值并帮助管理层规避绩效审查，从而促进了其在多种制度环境中的快速复制。
Business incubators are structurally complex and have resisted any major change to their internal structure, replicating throughout the world in large numbers, and delivering value through numerous models. A question, thus arises, what specific structural properties of incubators facilitate the organizational form's replication and performance in a range of institutional contexts? In order to shed light on this question, an exploratoryinductive approach is adopted; and, utilizing the tools of organization theory, the internal environment of the business incubator is de-coded. This draws attention to attributes of the hybrid incubator-form's internal structural properties that have not been discussed in the past, including de-coupling issues and the mis-alignment of managerial incentives with the actual role of incubating. These properties, rather than impacting incubators' status, award incubators with ceremonial value and help their managements avoid close inspections of performance. This in turn, it is proposed, has allowed for their rapid replication in a variety of socio-cultural, economic and institutional contexts.