Community and Innovation: From Tonnies to Marx

被引:34
作者
Adler, Paul S. [1 ]
机构
[1] Univ So Calif, Marshall Sch Business, Business Policy, Los Angeles, CA 90089 USA
关键词
innovation; knowledge work; organizational forms; topics; ORGANIZATIONAL COMMITMENT; LABOR PROCESS; WORK; KNOWLEDGE; POWER; PARTICIPATION; GEMEINSCHAFT; PERFORMANCE; PREDICTORS; DIVERSITY;
D O I
10.1177/0170840614561566
中图分类号
C93 [管理学];
学科分类号
12 ; 1201 ; 1202 ; 120202 ;
摘要
The idea of community has lurked in various forms in organization studies since the field's inception, but its recent prominence as a critical precondition for innovation makes urgent the resolution of two theoretical puzzles. Both puzzles can be stated in the terms suggested by Tonnies' classic contrast of Gemeinschaft and Gesellschaft, community and association. First, it is difficult to reconcile the idea that community is critical to innovation with the traditionalistic character of Gemeinschaft. Second, it is difficult to reconcile any idea of community in work organizations with the conflictual character of the capitalist employment relation and the instrumental Gesellschaft character of the economic sphere. I argue that the resolution of the second puzzle via Marxist theory leads us to a resolution of the first. My thesis, in summary, is that community is a critical component of the capitalist labour-process, and that where this labour-process is oriented toward innovation, community is taking an historically new form. This new form represents a dialectical synthesis of Gemeinschaft and Gesellschaft, a form we can call Genossenschaft, or collaborative. The argument is essentially theoretical; I illustrate some key features of this emergent collaborative form with case data from a software services firm. In conclusion I suggest that this new form represents communism developing in the heart of capitalism.
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页码:445 / 471
页数:27
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