Temporary Organisations: Implications for Knowledge Work
Temporary Organisations: Implications for Knowledge Work
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临时组织：对知识工作的影响
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2011
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M. Simpson
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Violina Ratcheva;M. Simpson
本文关注组织科学的最新趋势，将临时组织理解为一种独特的组织形式。迄今为止，战略管理文献未能对组织临时性和技能多样性如何在项目中共存提供任何可行的解释。这种组织形式的独特性先前被归因于其“临时性”或预定的目的。我们质疑这种过于简单化的假设，并认为组织的临时性需要永久性的来源作为协作行动的促进者。此外，我们认为，与知识工作相关的临时组织代表了一种混合类型的社区，它表现出实践社区和实践集体的一些特征。我们将这种特定类型的知识组织定义为协作者社区，在协作实践中更加强调个性化知识而不是共享公共知识。最后，本文得出的结论是，“临时性”和“永久性”通过协作即兴创作的过程共存，这是一种特定类型的知识工作，远非可预测的，并且会带来新的挑战。
This paper engages with the recent trend in organisation science towards understanding temporary organisations as a distinctive organisational form. The strategic management literature has so far failed to provide any viable explanations about how organisational temporariness and skills diversity coexist in projects. The distinctiveness of this organisational form has been previously attributed to its ‘temporariness’ or predetermined end. We challenge that assumption as far too simplistic and argue that organisational temporariness requires sources of permanence as a facilitator of collaborative actions. Further, we argue that temporary organisations in relation to their knowledge work represent a hybrid type of community which exhibits some characteristics of communities of practice and some of collectivities of practice. We define this specific kind of knowledge organisation as a community of collaborators by placing greater emphasis on the individualised rather than the shared communal knowledge in collaborative practices. Finally, the paper concludes that ‘temporariness’ and ‘permanence’ coexist through a process of collaborative improvisation which is a specific kind of knowledge work, far less predictable and imposing new challenges.