FROM BORROWING TO BLENDING: RETHINKING THE PROCESSES OF ORGANIZATIONAL THEORY BUILDING.
指出组织理论过度依赖从其他学科“借用”理论,导致原创性不足,并提出用“概念融合”的双向类比过程来替代单向借用,以激发更激进的理论创新。
Why are there not more original and radical theories in organization theory? To answer this question, we consider an overreliance on "theory borrowing" from other disciplines. We identify a dominant foreign to domestic to domesticated pattern of organization and management theory building and propose that the prevalent process of one-way borrowing from outside the discipline should be counterbalanced by a two-way analogical process of conceptual blending, which involves dissonant thinking, disanalogy, and counterfactual reasoning.