组织身份不对称、动态学习与后发企业创新追赶

Cross-border acquisition has been one of the most important strategy for the surging emerging market multinationals (EMNEs) to globally acquire innovation resources and realize innovation catch-up. However, a substantial number of them failed to realize their expectation and motivation due to the challenge of identity asymmetry between the acquiring and acquired units. This project is intended to answer the question “How can EMNEs realize innovation catch-up through cross-border acquisition in the face of identity asymmetry?” In order to find the solution, this project is divided to 3 parts. The first part is to answer the very basic question, to explore what is identity asymmetry and how it works on EMNEs innovation catch-up. Based on this, the second part of this project is intended to find out how EMNEs design their learning mechanisms in the post-entry stage to respond to the aforementioned challenge and to improve their innovation capability. And the last part, by emphasizing the dynamics of organizational identity and organizational learning, is designed to explore the dynamic nexus between identity and strategy to depict the panorama of EMNEs’ learning and identity reconstruction throughout the acquisition and integration process.

跨国并购是后发企业获取全球创新资源、实现创新追赶的重要战略之一。但事实上，由于组织身份不对称挑战的存在，后发企业在并购后的创新资源获取和整合过程中面临重重挑战，预期的创新追赶目标无法实现的案例比比皆是。本课题拟聚焦于“组织身份不对称下，后发企业如何通过跨国并购实现创新追赶？”这一问题展开，全面探索后发企业克服挑战、实现追赶的路径、机制和边界条件。本课题分为三部分：子研究一在剖析了组织身份不对称内涵、维度和表现的基础上，探索了其对后发企业创新追赶的影响及机制。子研究二聚焦于后发企业跨国并购后的组织学习机制设计，探索后发企业在并购后是如何通过动态、多元的学习机制设计来克服身份不对称挑战、实现创新追赶。子研究三基于过程视角，用纵向的研究方法综合考察创新追赶全过程，强调组织身份和组织学习的动态性，刻画出后发企业跨国并购后组织学习和组织身份动态匹配关系，勾勒出后发企业创新追赶的多元路径。

在为期三年多的项目研究中，我们按照项目申请书中的进度计划，同时整合理论界在近年来的新进展，围绕组织身份不对称、国际化和创新追赶这些主题，聚焦后发跨国企业，系统地开展了多项子研究工作。本课题主要是聚焦于“组织身份不对称下，后发企业如何通过跨国并购实现创新追赶？”这一问题展开，在项目执行过程中我们综合使用各种定性定量研究方法全面探索后发企业克服挑战、实现追赶的路径、机制和边界条件。具体而言，本课题首先剖析了组织身份不对称内涵、维度和表现的基础上，探索了其对后发企业创新追赶的影响及机制。进而，聚焦于后发企业跨国并购后的组织学习机制设计，探索后发企业在并购后是如何通过动态、多元的学习机制设计来克服身份不对称挑战、实现创新追赶。在此基础上，基于过程视角，用纵向的研究方法综合考察创新追赶全过程，强调组织身份和组织学习的动态性，刻画出后发企业跨国并购后组织学习和组织身份动态匹配关系，勾勒出后发企业创新追赶的多元路径。在成果发表方面，目前我们在国际商务领域权威期刊（SSCI）上已发表两篇学术论文，1篇实务性文章，以及3个教学案例。值得指出的是，本项目还有一系列重要研究发现正在国际、国内重要学术期刊审稿过程中。