Organizational Change Multi-stage Collaborative Behavioral Strategies And Affection Mechanisms: International Business Perspective

With the development of economic globalization and technological innovation, domestic enterprises have been facing a rapid changing environment.Under this background,whether the firms like or not,their internationalization will start inevitably.When beginning international entrepreneurship,how does the enterprise demonstrate its advantage,enhance its international competitiveness? One important choice is beginning strategic synergy with its partner to realize synergy.Based on previous related researches on organizational change,entrepreneurship management and strategic synergy,we deeply investigated the company's cooperation with its strategic partner.Based on ASD theory,this paper proposed and verified the model of organizational change synergy through new research approaches.Five studies were conducted to uncover the causality and mechanism between organizational change synergy and effectiveness in international entrepreneurial process.StudyⅠis an interview study of organizational change synergy's structure. Semi-structured interviews were conducted with 15 different international entrepreneurial ventures.The entrepreneurs or top managers of these firms were asked to list the critical incidents of strategic synergy during the process of international entrepreneurship.Based on the interview,the study initially came up with the construct of organizational change synergy model by Ground theory.The results indicated that organizational change synergy is a 6-dimension model,including vision shaping,interparty trust,resource integration,complimentary development,mutual dependence and inter-organizational commitment.StudyⅡis a series of case studies of the dynamic mechanism of organizational multi-stage change synergy.Three different international entrepreneurial ventures at different synergic stages were selected,the entrepreneurs or top managers of the three firms were interviewed for several grounds,material of this three enterprises were collected and compared.Based on ASD theory,case studies indicated organizational change synergy was a 3-stage model with adaptation,selection and development. There are different key dimensions in different stages,in adaption stage are vision shaping,interparty trust;in selection stage are resource integration,complimentary development;in development stage are mutual dependence and inter-organizational commitment.StudyⅢis a questionnaire study of organizational multi-stage change synergy model verification.Based on the former interview and case studies,we investigated 214 international entrepreneurial ventures as study sample.Through exploratory and confirmatory factor analysis,it confirmed the stabilization of organizational change synergy model's 3-stage and 6-dimension structure,the differences of organizational change synergy among organizations are also tested.StudyⅣis a questionnaire study of organizational multi-stage change synergy model's influence mechanism.By using 185 international entrepreneurial ventures from Zhejiang,Jiangshu,Guangdong Province,and Shanghai City as research samples,the function mechanism of organizational change characteristics, international entrepreneurial orientation,organizational multi-stage change synergy and effectiveness was investigated though correlation analysis,multi-regression analysis and structure equation modeling,the mediating effect of change task and environmental factors on the relationship were also verified.StudyⅤis an experiment study of organizational change synergy's multi-stage dynamism.This study designed experiment on organizational synergy.StudyⅤincludes two sub-studies of 2×2×2 within-group design with the sample of 30 postgraduate students respectively.These two sub-studies tested the moderating effect of strategic renewal and structure adjustment on the relationship between organizational change characteristics,international entrepreneurial orientation and organizational change synergy.The stage dynamism of organizational change synergy was verified.The experiment simulation compared the different organizational change synergy models and enriched the research method of organizational synergy studies.From above five studies,we come to the conclusions as following:1.Organizational change synergy is a 3-stage model,with six key dimensions as vision shaping,interparty trust,resource integration,complimentary development, mutual dependence and inter-organizational commitment.2.Organizational change characteristics,international entrepreneurial orientation directly influence the selection of organizational change synergy,and change task is the main impetus of change synergy.3.There is a dynamic relationship among the three stages of organizational change synergy,to different international entrepreneurial ventures at different scale, different development stage and with different entrepreneurial model,the characteristics of this three stages are quite different.4.Organizational multi-stage change synergy prominently influences organizational effectiveness,and the synergy effect is the main reason of the improvement of organizational effectiveness.Finally,the main conclusions of this paper were summarized.The theoretical progresses and practical implications of the present study were discussed,as well as the limitation of this study and the directions for future research.