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Reducing complexity by creating complexity: A systems theory perspective on how organizations respond to their environments

机译：通过创建复杂性来降低复杂性：系统理论对组织如何响应其环境的观点

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Environmental complexity refers to the number of items or elements that must be dealt with simultaneously by an organization. Organizations respond to complexity by modifying their structures, processes, rules, or routines. The article explores the phenomenon of collaboration between organizations and to investigate the conditions in which organizations address environmental complexity either on their own or in collaboration with other organizations using social systems theory. The theory offers a complexity based sociological perspective on how social systems respond to challenges in their environment. A conceptual model was developed that explains why firms respond to environmental complexity by creating either internal or collaborative complexity. The study has tried to show that an organization can also reduce its complexity differential by creating collaborative complexity and explain why organizations in some circumstances tackle environmental complexity on their own (by creating internal complexity), while in other circumstances they do so in collaboration with other organizations (by creating collaborative complexity). The model was tested in the context of corporate social responsibility and explains using two main factors viz., depending on the combination of environmental overlap and available collaborative complexity in four quadrants. The article also explains why reducing the complexity differential of one organization can, at the same time, increase the environmental complexity that other organizations perceive. The latter's responses to this increase in their own environmental complexity influence in turn the focal organization's effort to reduce its complexity differential by means of different combinations of internal and collaborative complexity. (27 refs.)
机译：环境复杂性是指组织必须同时处理的项目或元素的数量。组织通过修改其结构，流程，规则或例程来应对复杂性。本文探讨了组织之间的协作现象，并研究了组织独自​​或与其他组织合作使用社会系统理论解决环境复杂性的条件。该理论提供了一种基于复杂性的社会学观点，即社会系统如何应对其环境中的挑战。开发了概念模型，解释了为什么公司通过创建内部或协作复杂性来应对环境复杂性。该研究试图表明组织还可以通过创建协作复杂性来降低其复杂性差异，并解释为什么组织在某些情况下可以自己解决环境复杂性（通过创建内部复杂性），而在其他情况下则可以与其他协作组织（通过创建协作复杂性）。该模型在企业社会责任的背景下进行了测试，并使用两个主要因素进行解释，这取决于环境重叠和四个象限中可用的协作复杂性的组合。本文还解释了为什么减少一个组织的复杂性差异会同时增加其他组织所感知的环境复杂性的原因。后者对自身环境复杂性影响的这种增加的反过来又使焦点组织通过内部和协作复杂性的不同组合来减少其复杂性差异的努力。 （27参考）

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    《Operations Research》 |2018年第3期|187-189|共3页
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    Anselm Schneider; Christopher Wickert; Emilio Marti;

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    Stockholm Business School, Stockholm University, Kraftriket 3, SE 106 91, Stockholm, Sweden;

    VU University, Amsterdam, The Netherlands;

    City University, London, UK;

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