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历史的延续:组织印记研究述评与展望

Lasting History: A Literature Review of Organizational Imprinting and Prospects

王砚羽，谢伟

2016 第 38 卷 第 12 期 页码 91-102

DOI: 10.16538/j.cnki.fem.2016.12.007

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摘要

历史是现实的重要解释变量，中国近代历史上的经济政治体制与当前现状相差悬殊，然而遗憾的是国内学术界对历史作用的关注并不充分。西方学术界，早在半个世纪前就诞生了理解历史对现实作用的重要概念——组织印记，研究组织成立时的条件对组织当前和未来产生的影响。本文遵循Stinchcombe的研究思路，综述了组织印记的概念，剖析了组织印记产生和固化作用并构建了系统动力学模型，总结了组织印记的作用领域，提出了组织印记研究对于中国情境的重要性及可能的研究机会。本文的学术贡献是：第一，系统地综述了组织印记理论，明确了组织印记对于中国管理学研究的重要性及迫切性；第二，识别了中国情境下组织印记的潜在研究方向。

History is an important explanation factor of reality. The economic and political systems in modern Chinese history are quite different from present ones, but regretfully the attention on the role of history from domestic academia is insufficient. However, in western academia, there has already existed the critical concept of "organizational imprinting" understanding the role of history in reality for about half century, and the study on the effect of founding condition on present and future organizations. Based on Stinchcombe (1965), this paper reviews the concept of organizational imprinting, analyzes the emergence and solidification role of organizational imprinting, builds the system dynamics model, summarizes the application fields of organizational imprinting, and raises the importance of organizational imprinting to Chinese context & possible research opportunities. It makes the following academic contributions:firstly, it systematically reviews organizational imprinting theory and defines the importance and urgency of organizational imprinting to Chinese management research; secondly, it identifies potential directions in organizational imprinting research in Chinese context.

关键词： 组织印记,中国情境,系统动力学,文献综述,研究展望

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