Cyr Audrey-Anne, Le Breton-Miller Isabelle, Miller Danny
HEC Montréal.
J Manage. 2023 Jan;49(1):474-508. doi: 10.1177/01492063221117120. Epub 2022 Sep 7.
To date there has been little systematic organization of the extensive literature on the processes and mechanisms shaping social relationships in and around organizations. In an analysis of 372 studies from this literature, we identified a broad spectrum of assumptions, priorities, and relational issues emerging from multiple disciplines and theoretical lenses. Three dominant perspectives surfaced in our study: economic, organizational, and interactionist. Each manifests distinctive ontologies of social relations, actors, relational processes, and modes of social embedding. The rich variety of relationships and causal patterns discovered characterizes more fully these perspectives, suggesting opportunities for further research within each, and a wider range of conceptual options to target relational paradigms toward different types of organizations, problems, and levels of analysis. It also brings to light the pluralistic nature of social relations in organizational contexts and the processes by which they become embedded.
迄今为止，对于有关组织内部及其周围社会关系形成过程和机制的大量文献，几乎没有进行系统的整理。在对该文献中的372项研究进行分析时，我们识别出了源自多个学科和理论视角的一系列广泛的假设、优先事项和关系问题。我们的研究中出现了三种主要观点：经济观点、组织观点和互动主义观点。每一种观点都体现了社会关系、参与者、关系过程和社会嵌入模式的独特本体论。所发现的丰富多样的关系和因果模式更全面地刻画了这些观点，这表明在每种观点内部都有进一步研究的机会，以及针对不同类型的组织、问题和分析层次的关系范式的更广泛概念选择。它还揭示了组织环境中社会关系的多元性质及其嵌入的过程。
