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1、OrganizationScienceinforms®Vol.17,No.5,September–October2006,pp.657–671doi10.1287/orsc.1060.0215issn1047-7039eissn1526-54550617050657©2006INFORMSAFutureforOrganizationTheory:LivinginandLivingwithChangingOrganizationsJamesP.WalshStephenM.RossSchoolofBusiness,Universityo
2、fMichigan,AnnArbor,Michigan48109-1234,jpwalsh@umich.eduAlanD.MeyerCharlesH.LundquistCollegeofBusiness,UniversityofOregon,Eugene,Oregon97403-1208,ameyer@lcbmail.uoregon.eduClaudiaBirdSchoonhovenPaulMerageSchoolofBusiness,UniversityofCalifornia,Irvine,Irvine,California92697,
3、kschoonh@uci.eduWebelievethatthefieldoforganizationtheoryisadrift.Insailingjargon,weare“inirons”—stalledandmakinglittleheadwaytowardunderstandingorganizationsandtheirplaceinourlives.Wefirstattempttodiagnoseourmaladiesandthen,inthislight,offerthreebroadresearchquestionsthatju
4、stmightreinvigorateourwork:First,howcanweunderstandtoday’schangingorganizations?Second,howcanweliveintheseorganizations?Andthird,howcanwebestlivewiththem?Weclosebycallingattentiontohowourfamiliarapproachestobuildingandtestingtheorymighthamperanyattempttorevitalizeourfield.K
5、eywords:organizationtheory;twenty-firstcenturyorganizations;theory-buildingagendaWeareadrift.Theworkoforganizationtheoristshasgoodmanagementpractices”(p.86).Strongwords.beencalledeverythingfromsolipsistictodangerous,Thereisabadmoodrising.andprominentscholarsareconcerned.Aug
6、ieretal.Adebatenowragesaboutjusthow“relevant”our(2005)andScott(2004)tookstockofourfield’shis-workshouldbe.Whiletherearemanysubtletiesinthetoryandconcludedthatourresearchquestionsmaybevariousarguments,weobserveseveralcolleaguesliningconstrainedbyourperhapstoo-comfortableacad
7、emicuptoargueforclosertiestobusinesspractice,peo-affiliationswithbusinessschoolsandtheireconomics-plelikeBennisandO’Toole(2005),Ghoshal(2005),oriented,probusinessethos.HiningsandGreenwoodStarkeyandMadan(2001),andTranfieldandStarkey(2002,p.413)spokeofourmigrationtobusi-(1998)
8、.OtherslikeGrey(2001),Huff(2000),KilduffnessschoolsasamoveawayfromourintellectualandKelem
