An Efficient Frontier in Organization Design: Organizational Structure as a Determinant of Exploration and Exploitation
建立了一个简洁的过程层面理论，通过数学模型连接组织结构与探索和利用活动，识别不同组织设计之间的权衡与优势关系，并探讨组织规模对探索的影响，为管理者和研究者提供可检验的假设和洞见。
This paper develops a parsimonious process-level theory that connects organizational structure to exploration and exploitation. Toward this end, it develops a mathematical model of organizational decision making that combines an information processing approach in the spirit of Sah and Stiglitz [Sah RK, Stiglitz JE (1986) The architecture of economic systems: Hierarchies and polyarchies. Amer. Econom. Rev. 76(4):716–727] with elements from signal detection theory. The model is first used to explore a “design space” of organizations and identify trade-offs and dominance relationships among alternative organization designs. The paper then studies open questions in the organization design literature, such as the extent to which exploration and exploitation can be produced by one organization and what is the effect of organization size on exploration. More broadly, this research speaks to calls for the introduction of more process-level explanations in the organizations literature. The paper concludes with testable hypotheses and managerially relevant insights.