Research On The Mechanism Of Organizational Cognitive Distance On Cooperative Performance

Under the trend of globalization and networking,the complexity and dynamics of the market environment have continued to increase,while the degree of division of labor and professionalism in knowledge production has continued to deepen.It is increasingly difficult for firms to rely on their own strength to cope with a highly uncertain business environment,and they become dependent on external knowledge and resources more than ever.Obtaining external complementary knowledge and resources is the main motivation for firms to cooperate,but it is often accompanied by high costs to coordinate and high risks from opportunist.This has seriously affected the effectiveness of cooperation and hinder t firms to develop external cooperation.In view of the practical challenges in this enterprise cooperation practice,this paper believes that the key to solving this contradiction lies in correctly understanding the differences in the cognitive structure between organizations and selecting suitable partners.Therefore,based on a cognititive approach of the oganizations,this paper integrates theories of Transaction Costs,Resource-Based View,Knowledge Management,and Group Cognition,and uses organizational cognition distance as a representation of the deep heterogeneity of cooperative organizations to examine the process and mechanism of their cooperation action on performance.In this context,this dissertation addresses the challenges of Chinese corporate practice.Based on the theoretical perspective of organizational theory,the paper integrates the theories of Transaction Cost,Resource-Based View,the Theory of Knowledge Management,and Group Cognition.The organizational cognitive distance is used to represent the deep heterogeneity of cooperative organizations,and the intermediate process of organizational cognitive distance to the effect of cooperative performance is taken as the the main line of the study and examine the mechanism of organizational cognitive distance on cooperative performance.Specifically,this dissertation focuses on the basic theoretical issues of "the mechanism of organizational cognitive distance on cooperative performance",including the following four research questions:(1)Why use organizational cognitive distance to describe the heterogeneity of cooperative agents,and What is the meaning and dimension of cognitive distance?(2)How the organizational cognitive distances in different dimensions affect the cooperation between organizations and how they affect cooperation performance.(3)What is the specific role and mechanism of organizational cognitive distance in the impact on cooperative performance?(4)What is the boundary condition of organizational cognitive distance affecting cooperative performance?This dissertation comprehensively uses the research methods including theoretical research,exploratory case analysis,hierarchical regression analysis,and structural equation modeling to conduct in-depth research on the above issues.The main conclusions are as follows:(1)Based on previous research,this study combines theoretical deduction and case analysis to distinguish the organizational cognitive distance into two dimensions of cognitive cognitive distance and governance cognitive distance,and further discusses the dimensional division of organizational cognitive distance and measurement methods.This dissertation believes that the organizational cognitive distance is to describe the heterogeneity between organizations from the perspective of implicit difference,and this is better grasp the essential attributes and core characteristics and explain and predict the cooperation process more stablely and accurately than just based on explicit heterogeneity.(2)Through the integration of the Theories of Transaction Cost,Resource-Based View,the Theory of Knowledge Management,and Group Cognition,this dissertation combines the findings of the exploratory case study,and builds the mechanism model of organizational cognitive distance and cooperative performance.It further explores the relationship between the two dimensions of organizational cognitive distance and corporate cooperative performance.Through the questionnaire survey and large sample empirical research of 365 companies,this paper verifies the inverted U-shaped relationship between organizational ability cognitive distance and governance cognitive distance and corporate cooperative performance.(3)This paper treats companies and their partners as heterogeneous cognitive individuals and studies organizational cognitive mechanisms.At the same time,it hypothesizes and tests the mediating effects of two cognitive and cooperative factors,the interactive memory system and the shared mental model,on the organizational cognitive distance and cooperative performance.The study verifies the positive influence of cognitive distance on the interactive memory system and the negative influence on the shared mental model.However,the effect of governance cognitive distance on the interactive memory and shared mental is not significant,but the shared mind is in the management of cognitive distance.Cooperation performance still plays a partial intermediary role.The research results show that the differences in the effect of shared mental models and interactive memory systems on organizational cooperation performance are related to the dimension of cognitive distance between partners to a large extent.It also indirectly proves the multidimensional nature of the organization's cognitive distance and the necessity of dividing dimensions.(4)This paper also studies the boundary conditions of organizational cognitive distance on the effect of cooperative performance.It assumes and tests the regulatory effects of environmental dynamics and task interdependence on the relationship between organizational cognitive distance and cooperative performance.The results of the research show that there is a significant positive adjustment ability in task interdependence and environmental dynamics and the relationship between cognitive distance and cooperative performance.The negative adjustment of the environmental dynamics governs the relationship between cognitive distance and cooperative performance,while the task unit type has no significant effect on the relationship between cognitive governance distance and cooperative performance.The above research conclusions deepen the understanding of organizational cognitive distance on the mechanism of cooperative performance,making this paper has a certain exploration significance.In summary,this article has deepened and expanded in the following three aspects:First,based on the cognitive differences between firms and partners,this paper breaks through the research framework of the linear relationship between habitual partner heterogeneity and cooperative performance,and integrates the existing inter-organizational cooperation theory with the organizational cognitive view.The inverted U-shaped curve relationship between cognitive distance and cooperative performance was verified,and the unique performance mechanism of cross-organization cooperation was more deeply and truly portrayed.At present,the research on inter-organizational cooperation usually uses the perspective of resource dependence of the enterprise resource concept,the knowledge sharing practice of the knowledge base view,and the relationship-specific investment of the corporate governance school to explain the influence of organization-level heterogeneity on cooperation,but The role of these collectives level elements must be perceived and used by the agents in order to form an effective influence on the cooperation.From this perspective,the existing research ignores the deep individual cognition and behavior root behind the cooperation between organizations.From the perspective of organizational cognitive distance,this paper explores why there are differences in the way and effect of corporate external cooperation and explains the role of micro processes such as perception and cognition in creating macroscopic phenomena such as organizational boundaries and interorganizational cooperation,thus providing new theoretical perspectives and ideas on the relationship between partner heterogeneity and cooperation performance.Second,this paper introduces the cooperation process variable as a mediator variable in the relationship between organizational cognitive distance and cooperative performance.Through case studies and empirical studies,this paper verifies the possibility and the interaction mechanism of interactional memory and shared minds as the intermediary variables.Theoretically,this research provides strong support for the current organizational cognitive theory and contributes to the enrichment of organizational cognitive theory.On the other hand,it explores the research framework of the heterogeneous heterogeneity performance mechanism.In the research model that incorporates the process factors that affect inter-organizational cooperation,it is theoretically explained that what kind of partners are cooperative is more likely to achieve better cooperative performance,which is an important complement to the inter-organizational cooperation theory.Third,this paper goes beyond the existing research on the relationship between partner heterogeneity and cooperation performance from a relatively single dimension.It integrates the different dimensions of the cognitive distance between organizations and emphasizes the cognitive distance between organizations.Based on the differences,we propose the perspective of the cognitive distance division,and divide it into dimensions.It is a useful supplement to the existing research that overemphasize the heterogeneity of externalities and ignore the heterogeneity of implicitness.It is a theoretical contribution to Organizational cognitive theory.