Empirical Research in Formation of Organizational Order and Changes of Organizational Environments

提出了组织与其社会背景之间关系的概念框架。在理论方面，我们采用组织生态学和新制度主义的观点，试图建立一个组织与网络关系的分类系统。在方法论问题上，与神奈川县的制造业组织的数据，我们证实了一些人口生态研究结果的稳健性，即使在组织社区水平。本研究分三个阶段进行：第一，回顾组织生态学、组织制度分析和生物生态学的研究，指出社区生态学视角在分析组织变革与环境变化之间动态互动关系的有效性。其次，我们使用神奈川县制造业组织的数据，检验了将一些种群生态学假设应用于组织的社区生态学研究的有效性。最后，结合澳大利亚的一些经济研究成果，探讨了该框架在国际比较研究和世界经济全球化对国内组织演化影响研究中的适用性。

A conceptual framework of relationships between organizations and their societal contexts was proposed. On theoretical aspects, adopting organizational ecological and new institutionalism perspectives, we tried to formulate a taxonomy of relationships between organizations and their networks. On methodological issues, with the data of manufacturing organizations in Kanagawa Prefecture, we confirmed robustness of some population ecological findings even at the organizational community level. Our research was undertaken through three stages as follows.First, Reviewing researches in organizational ecology and institutional analysis of organizations, as well as bio-ecological studies, we showed usefulness of community ecological perspective for analyzing dynamic interactions between organizational changes and their environmental changes. Secondly, we tested how valid it was to apply some population ecological hypotheses to community ecological studies of organizations using Kanagawa Prefecture manufacturing organizations data. At last, we investigated the applicability of this framework both to international comparative research and to study in the effect of the globalization of world economy on domestic organizational evolution, referring to some recent economic researches in Australia.