Theory of the Firm and Corporate Culture

企业理论与企业文化

• 批准号: 8722014
• 负责人: Jacques Cremer
• 金额: $ 5.41万
• 依托单位: Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 1988
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 1988-02-15 至 1990-07-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=8722014&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Theory; Firm; Corporate; Culture

The purpose of this proposal is to provide an economic explanation for the emergence of, and the effects, corporate culture. In the context of this research, corporate culture is defined as the common language or code of conduct shared by employees of the firm, which are not shared by those outside the firm. Several approaches to analyzing corporate culture will be undertaken, which attempt to translate in economic terms the insights derived from other disciplines concerned with organizational behavior. One approach will focus on the cognitive aspects of corporate culture, the knowledge of codes, facts, and rules shared by the members of the organization. Another approach will emphasize the incentive aspects of corporate culture, which uses the framework of overlapping games to model the stability of organizational values while its members change. Finally, these models are applied to examining the costs and benefits of mergers, and to try and formalize the notion that ownership instability can limit the investment of employees in firm-specific knowledge and job skills. This project is important because it may provide a more fundememtal understanding of the factors that determine the effectiveness of organizations.

这一建议的目的是为企业文化的产生及其影响提供一个经济学解释。在本研究的背景下，企业文化被定义为公司员工共享的共同语言或行为准则，而公司外的员工并不共享。将采用几种分析企业文化的方法，试图将来自与组织行为有关的其他学科的见解转化为经济学术语。一种方法将重点放在企业文化的认知方面，即组织成员共享的代码、事实和规则的知识。另一种方法将强调企业文化的激励方面，它使用重叠博弈的框架来模拟组织价值观的稳定性，同时其成员发生变化。最后，这些模型被应用于检验合并的成本和收益，并试图将所有权不稳定会限制员工对特定于公司的知识和工作技能的投资的概念正式化。这个项目很重要，因为它可以提供对决定组织效力的因素的更基本的了解。