组织稳定与创新的悖论性关系及其平衡机理研究

Considering the issue that most Chinese firms over pursue innovation while neglecting stability or over pursue stability while denying innovation under the effect of the traditional Dualism View, this research attempts to construct the Conflicting-but-Interdependent paradoxical relationship between organizational stability and innovation, explore their interaction, and search for the self-virtuous cycling path and equilibrium mechanism, so as to build up the paradoxical theory on the relationship between stability and innovation, by adopting the qualitative research method supplemented with quantitative research method and from both stable and dynamic perspectives. It aims to change the traditional Dualism View which regards stability and innovation as conflicting and also incompatible factors and relevant either-or decision method as well as the ambidextrous view based on Dualism View and relevant negatively coexisting method , and to offer organizations especially developing Chinese ones with new clues in addressing paradoxical intentions formed by conflicting factors and lead them to set up new paradoxical view and adopt equilibrium method in making strategy and development decisions. This research may focus on four issues: it will construct a concept model of the paradoxical relationship; it will explore both the negative and positive effects of stability mechanism on that of innovation as well as the combining path and mechanism; it will explore both the negative and positive effects of innovation mechanism on that of stability as well as the combining path and mechanism; finally, it will focus on the self-virtuous cycling path and equilibrium mechanism between stability and innovation and set up both stable and dynamic equilibrium models.

围绕中国企业受传统二元对立观影响或过于追求创新而忽略稳定或过于追求稳定而拒绝创新的问题，本项目拟以质性研究为主、定量研究为辅，综合静态与动态双重视角，在构念组织稳定与创新之间既“矛盾”又“相互依赖”的悖论性关系基础上，探究两者之间的相互作用，并探寻其自我良性循环路径与平衡机理，从而构建组织稳定与创新的悖论性关系理论。旨在打破传统稳定与创新相互“矛盾”且“不可兼容”的二元对立观和二选一决策思维以及基于二元对立观形成的双元观及被动共存思维，为组织尤其是处于发展中的中国企业组织应对矛盾要素形成的悖论态势提供新思路，引导形成新的悖论性战略与管理观，采取平衡决策思维。具体内容包括四个方面：构建两者悖论性关系的构念模型；揭示稳定对创新的阻碍和促进作用及这种双重作用的整合路径与机理；揭示创新对稳定的阻碍和促进作用及这种双重作用的整合路径与机理；最后探究两者之间的自我良性循环路径并构建静态与动态平衡模型。

该项目针对现有研究尚未解决组织创新的性质及其真正来源问题，亦未解决组织稳定与创新之间悖论效应从何而来，以及稳定如何矛盾地影响创新等问题的现状。基于组织惯例能代表稳定状态又是组织创新来源与基本分析单元的观点，研究组织稳定与创新的悖论性关系及其平衡机理的应用，以揭示组织稳定矛盾的推动组织创新变革的路径，以及这种悖论性矛盾对组织创新变革的影响，挖掘组织悖论在组织创新变革中所起的本质性作用。以案例研究为主要研究方法，结合扎根理论、仿真建模等方法，聚焦中国企业实践，分组织悖论的基础理论研究、组织稳定与组织创新的发展模式、悖论关系对组织变革的影响三个模块开展系统研究，具体探讨了组织悖论内涵和特征、组织悖论均衡路径、组织悖论与组织变革关系、组织长期维持稳定的机制、组织选择创新模式的路径、组织稳定与组织创新悖论关系识别、组织稳定对组织创新的悖论性作用机制、悖论关系对组织实施战略变革时选择变革方向的影响机制等八个核心问题。对各模块和主要问题的研究均取得了一定成果，不仅揭示了代表组织稳定的组织惯例的演化路径，提出了组织选择创新模式的依据，还归纳出组织稳定对组织创新的悖论性作用机制，以及悖论性关系在组织变革过程中对选择变革方向的影响，丰富了组织创新案例体系的同时深入探究了组织创新和组织悖论理论，为探究中国企业的组织创新实践奠定理论基础。