Inter-Organizational Learning in a Context of Dynamic and Behavioral Complexity: Developing Sustainable Business Enterprises

动态和行为复杂性背景下的组织间学习：发展可持续的商业企业

• 批准号: 0080643
• 负责人: John Carroll
• 金额: $ 20.68万
• 依托单位: The Society for Organizational Learning
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2000
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2000-07-15 至 2004-06-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0080643&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Inter; Organizational; Learning; Context; Dynamic

Although sustainable business practices are much lauded in the abstract, there is little grounded research on how contemporary enterprises, facing increasingly complex environments, where many causes and effects are distant in time and place and correspondingly difficult to comprehend; and where behavioral complexity is exacerbated by numerous, diverse agents with decision making power, can evolve effective approaches. This study proposes a series of collaborative research studies among the collaborative industrial partners of the Society for Organizational Learning to focus on how learning might take place within the consortium around topics related to sustainable enterprise business practices. In Phase I of the project, a series of research studies is planned that involves: 1) facilitating and documenting learning and new practices in the Consortium as a whole; 2) historical case studies of individual organizations' learning and change projects; and 3) ongoing active participation and observation of learning and change projects within sub-groups of the Consortium. A multi-method approach is proposed, including community action research with teams of insiders and outsiders; content analysis of documents, email and conversations; structured and semi-structured interviews; causal loop diagramming and systems thinking assessments; sociograms; observation of boundary objects used in Consortium change projects; and selective comparisons with non-consortium control groups. Phase II studies will emerge as the Consortium gains experience in Phase I.

尽管可持续的商业实践在抽象上备受赞誉，但关于当代企业如何发展出有效方法的扎根研究很少，因为面临着日益复杂的环境，许多因果在时间和地点上都很遥远，因此很难理解；行为的复杂性因众多具有决策权的不同代理人而加剧。这项研究建议在组织学习协会的合作行业合作伙伴中开展一系列合作研究，重点是如何在联合体内围绕与可持续企业业务做法有关的主题进行学习。在该项目的第一阶段，计划进行一系列研究，其中包括：1)促进和记录整个联合体的学习和新做法；2)个别组织的学习和变革项目的历史案例研究；3)持续积极参与和观察联合体各分组内的学习和变革项目。提出了一种多方法方法，包括与内部和外部团队的社区行动研究；对文件、电子邮件和对话的内容分析；结构化和半结构化访谈；因果循环图和系统思维评估；社会图；观察联合体变化项目中使用的边界对象；以及与非联合体控制组的选择性比较。随着财团在第一阶段积累经验，第二阶段的研究将陆续出现。