Enterprise Boundaries Fuzzy Trend And Related Forms Of Organization

The concept "Boundary" was put forward by the system theory at the beginning. Using the concept, Scholars had analyzed the existence and the nature of the firm, which makes the boundary theories the foundation of modern enterprise theories. With the development of information technology and the reduction of the efficiency of the knowledge trade, the modularized production appears, and the boundary of the firm becomes vague, which have caused the springing of the inter-organizations that are between markets and companies. In order to adapt to the trend of the vagueness of the company's boundary, the company must innovate according to its character, and adopt one or several kinds of the inter-organizational forms to run after further development.Based on the exist research, the content of the paper includes: first, the history of the theories on the boundary of the firm and the recent related literatures was reviewed and tidied up at first, finally, the limitations of all kinds of the theories were analyzed; second, explains the change of the company's boundary, and presents the trend that the boundary of the company becomes vaguer and vaguer; third, The several important inter-organizations formed by the vagueness of the company's boundary were introduced, and their vagueness and profitability was analyzed then. Then presents how companies in our country can use the vagueness of the boundary for reference in order to innovate. at last, on the basis of what has been motioned, takes the example of Meter Bonwe to explain the way how the virtual enterprise with vague boundary organizes.