A future for organization theory: Living in and living with changing organizations

• 成果类型: Review
• 署名作者: Walsh, James P.; Meyer, Alan D.; Schoonhoven, Claudia Bird
• 署名单位: University of Michigan System; University of Michigan; University of Oregon; University of California System; University of California Irvine
• 刊物名称: ORGANIZATION SCIENCE
• ISSN/ISSBN: 1047-7039
• DOI: 10.1287/orsc.1060.0215
• 发表日期: 2006
• 页码: 657-671
• 关键词: ORGANIZATION THEORY; twenty-first century organizations; theory-building agenda

摘要

We believe that the field of organization theory is adrift. In sailing jargon, we are in irons - stalled and making little headway toward understanding organizations and their place in our lives. We first attempt to diagnose our maladies and then, in this light, offer three broad research questions that just might reinvigorate our work: First, how can we understand today's changing organizations? Second, how can we live in these organizations? And third, how can we best live with them? We close by calling attention to how our familiar approaches to building and testing theory might hamper any attempt to revitalize our field.