Catalyst Organizations as a New Organization Design for Innovation: The Case of Hyperloop Transportation Technologies
研究了超级高铁交通技术公司（HTT）这种基于众包的组织设计，发现其不符合现有设计模式，提出“催化剂组织”这一新概念，为组织设计、探索和在线知识创造社区理论提供启示。
The crucial contingencies surrounding organization design for innovation are experiencing drastic shifts. First, environmental uncertainty is rising with the increasingly connected nature of innovation. Second, the internet provides an almost costless supply of external knowledge. Current organization design theory does not provide adequate frames for studying organizations attempting to simultaneously leverage shifts of uncertainty and the costless supply of external knowledge. In the process of qualitatively examining one such organization—the crowd-based Hyperloop Transportation Technologies, Inc. (HTT)—we find that HTT’s design does not fit existing design schema. We label this new design form a “catalyst” organization, clarifying how HTT’s design challenges existing organization design principles while simultaneously showing researchers a way forward to new theorizing. We derive implications for theories of organization design, exploration, and online knowledge-creating communities.Whiteboard Video AbstractAOM Video Player5966343293001