现代企业管理系列讲座第133期

时　间：2019年3月18日（周一）10：00-11:30

地　点：史带楼302室

主 持人：徐笑君  副 教授

主　题：How to Achieve Seamless Changes in Organizations: Inception and the Veil of Agency

主讲嘉宾：Xiao-Ping Chen

　　　　　Associate Dean of Academic and Faculty Affairs

　　　　　Philip M. Condit Endowed Chair Professor of Business Administration, Foster School of Business, University of Washington

　　　　　Editor, Management Insights

Abstract：

With rapid technology advancement and deepening globalization, individuals and organizations must keep changing themselves to succeed.  Resistance to change, however, has been found to be innate in human nature. The purpose of this paper is to introduce formally a new construct called ‘inception,’ which can facilitate organizational change while minimizing resistance to that change. Inception is defined as the active yet covert manipulation of environmental or communicative cues so that the target believes that her idea, change of heart, provision of consent, accumulation of new knowledge or enacted action is the product solely of her own agency rather than as a result of the change agent’s agency. To help the reader understand the process through which inception takes place, our paper details the conditions under which an inception attempt is likely made and the potential consequences of inception for the agent seeking change, for the target of the inception attempt, and for the organization itself. We suggest that inception is meso-theoretic in nature, and should be studied from multiple levels.

企业管理系

2019-3-11