EVENT SYSTEM THEORY: AN EVENT-ORIENTED APPROACH TO THE ORGANIZATIONAL SCIENCES
EVENT SYSTEM THEORY: AN EVENT-ORIENTED APPROACH TO THE ORGANIZATIONAL SCIENCES
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事件系统理论：组织科学的面向事件的方法
DOI：
10.5465/amr.2012.0099
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发表时间：
2015-10-01
影响因子：
16.4
通讯作者：
Liu, Dong
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作者：
Morgeson, Frederick P.;Mitchell, Terence R.;Liu, Dong
组织是动态的、层级结构化的实体。这种活力反映在每个组织级别出现的重大事件上。尽管如此，关于事件如何变得有意义并在空间和时间上影响组织的讨论相对较少。我们通过发展事件系统理论来解决这一差距，该理论认为，当事件是新颖的、破坏性的和关键的（反映事件的强度）时，事件就会变得突出。重要的是，事件可以起源于任何层级，其影响可以保持在该层级内，或者在整个组织中向上或向下传播，改变或创建新的行为，功能和事件。随着事件持续时间和时间的变化或事件强度的演变，这种影响可能会随着时间的推移而延长。事件系统理论提供了一个必要的转变，重点为组织理论和研究，制定具体的命题阐明事件的力量和空间和时间的过程，通过事件来影响组织之间的相互作用。
Organizations are dynamic, hierarchically structured entities. Such dynamism is reflected in the emergence of significant events at every organizational level. Despite this fact, there has been relatively little discussion about how events become meaningful and come to impact organizations across space and time. We address this gap by developing event system theory, which suggests that events become salient when they are novel, disruptive, and critical (reflecting an event's strength). Importantly, events can originate at any hierarchical level and their effects can remain within that level or travel up or down throughout the organization, changing or creating new behaviors, features, and events. This impact can extend over time as events vary in duration and timing or as event strength evolves. Event system theory provides a needed shift in focus for organizational theory and research by developing specific propositions articulating the interplay among event strength and the spatial and temporal processes through which events come to influence organizations.