BECOMING AMBICULTURAL: A PERSONAL QUEST, AND ASPIRATION FOR ORGANIZATIONS

• 成果类型: Article
• 署名作者: Chen, Ming-Jer
• 署名单位: University of Virginia
• 刊物名称: ACADEMY OF MANAGEMENT REVIEW
• ISSN/ISSBN: 0363-7425
• DOI: 10.5465/amr.2013.0493
• 发表日期: 2014
• 页码: 119-137
• 关键词: COMPETITIVE DYNAMICS; PARADOX; management; INNOVATION; Rivalry; MODEL; east

摘要

In many ways management theory and practice, like life, are anchored in opposites. Dichotomies abound: East and West, global and local, research and teaching, scholarship and practice, among many others. But are they truly oppositional? Taking a broad view of culture as a concept that encapsulates all human affairs, I propose that an ambicultural perspective and approach offer a way to integrate the best qualities of what may appear to be irreconcilable opposites. Expanding on my August 2013 Academy of Management presidential address, I suggest that guideposts to gaining this perspective can be found in both my personal journey and my experiences in research, teaching, and professional service and that becoming ambicultural is a process that individuals and organizations alike can undergo to bridge divides and unite opposites. In this article I connect the ambicultural view to implications for management and organization research, for professional and personal growth, for the future of the Academy, and for attainment of a balance and onlightenment transcending differences. My research in competitive dynamics offers an example of ambicultural integration of Chinese philosophy and Western social sciences.