关键词: 动态网络型组织, 认知异质性, 重复合作, 组织学习

Abstract:

The new round of scientific and technological revolution and the trend of industrial transformation have created an urgent need for interdisciplinary knowledge production, which has led to the emergence of an organizational structure with a dynamic cooperation network as the main form. Existing research has focused on the relationship between members’ cognitive heterogeneity and organizational learning performance. There is a debate on this which has not yet been explored in dynamic cooperative network organizations. In this paper, the factor of repeated cooperation probability is introduced to construct a dynamic cooperation network. Based on the simulation of agent-based model, the influence of members’ cognitive heterogeneity on the learning performance of dynamic network-based organizations is studied, and three main findings are obtained. First, members’ cognitive heterogeneity has a positive impact on the mean value of organizational learning performance, but at the same time, it also leads to an increase in the variance of organizational learning performance and a decrease in reliability. At this time, increasing the probability of repeated cooperation can mitigate this negative impact and allow organizational learning to gain. There is a balance between “high mean” and “low variance”. Second, when the degree of cognitive consensus is high, organizations that pursue members’ cognitive homogeneity can effectively reduce the variance of learning performance; when the degree of cognitive consensus is low, organizations that pursue members’ cognitive homogeneity has little effect on reducing the variance of learning performance. Third, in organizations with a higher probability of repeated cooperation, cognitively homogeneous organizations have better learning performance than cognitively heterogeneous organizations in the early stages of development, but over time, cognitively heterogeneous organizations have better learning performance than cognitively heterogeneous organizations. The curves intersect and exceed those of cognitively homogeneous organizations, reaching higher levels in the long run. By introducing the variable “probability of repeated cooperation”, this paper bridges the existing theoretical debate on members’ cognitive heterogeneity and organizational learning performance to a certain extent, and provides theoretical guidance for cooperative network organizations to achieve efficient and stable learning.

Key words: dynamic network-based organization, cognitive heterogeneity, repetitive cooperation, organizational learning