Technological Innovation And Selection Of Organizational Structure Of Enterprise

Technological innovation has been a major means for enterprises to make competitive advantage. Market, industrial development, the state's economic policies, accumulation of capitals and knowledge stock in enterprises all contribute to technological innovation of enterprises through organizational structure of enterprise.1. The relations between organizational structure of enterprises and technological innovationThe organizational structure of enterprises consists of job scope, span of control, distribution of authority and responsibility, motivation, communication nets, formal rules, and culture. Organizational structure of enterprises includes functional structure, divisional structure, matrix structure, network structure with some temporary structure such as task force structure, committee structure and work team, which is more and more flexible.The nature of organizational structure of enterprises depends on enterprises' tasks. And enterprises' tasks are characterized with complexity that means uncertain, immeasurable, undivisible, and comprehensive. The more enterprise' tasks are complex, the more job scope is large, the more span of control is wide, the more employee self-controlled, overall the more organizational structure is flexible.2. The relations between tasks of enterprises' technological innovation and organizational structure of enterprisesThe tasks of enterprises' technological innovation are parts of enterprises' tasks. And they are different from other parts of enterprise' tasks which are repeated and standardized, i.e. technological innovational tasks are more complex. The complexity of technological innovation tasks is embodied in the processes, types, mechanisms, and strategies of enterprises' technological innovation, which demand flexible organizational structure.2.1 The relations between characters of innovation technological tasks and organizational structureTechnological innovation tasks are characterized with uncertainty, personality, inner-motivation, and integration. Uncertainty makes innovation technology tasks more immeasurable. Personality means individual has an important role in technological innovation. And it is mainly dependent on him but not on manager's control for individual to try his best to make full use of his personalities, i.e. personalities makes innovation tasks more immeasurable. Inner-motivation is more difficult to monitor for it is also parts of personalities, so it does with innovation tasksas personalities and inner-motivation do. Integration means innovation tasks are too tightly connected with each other to detach them away. As a whole, the characters of innovation tasks mean complex tasks that demand flexible organization structure,2.2 The relations between innovation mechanisms and organizational structure Innovation mechanism is that individual cognitive model, organization cognitivemodel, and tacit knowledge makes role and effect on innovation process. The innovative idea is produced and developed by individual cognitive model with stimulates which complement and adjust individual cognitive model though assimilation, accommodation and ignore. When stimulates are a little different from individual and organization cognitive model, organization cognitive model helps individual cognitive model absorb stimulates to produce gradual innovation through assimilation. When stimulates are much more different from individual and organization cognitive model, organization cognitive model permit individual cognitive model to receive stimulates to produce radical innovation. When stimulates are complete different from individual and organization cognitive model, they agree to reject these stimulates and no innovation produced unless absorb new employee with new cognitive model into team and reform organization structure by top leaders. Innovation process' main materials are stimulates that are mainly composed of tacit knowledge besides explicit knowledge, and involve four conversion of tacit and explicit knowledge, i.e. socia...