智能互联产品重塑企业边界研究:小米案例  

Research on How Smart Connected Products Reshape Enterprise Boundaries:The Case of Xiaomi

作　　者：曹鑫 欧阳桃花[1] 黄江明[2] Cao Xin;Ouyang Taohua;Huang Jiangming(School of Econoniics and Management.Beihang University;Business School.Ren min University of China)

机构地区：[1]北京航空航天大学经济管理学院 [2]中国人民大学商学院

出　　处：《管理世界》2022年第4期125-141,共17页Journal of Management World

基　　金：国家自然科学基金重点项目“互联网环境下制造业企业转型升级规律”(基金号:71632003);国家自然科学基金面上项目“新经济情境下中国企业边界跨越理论与实证研究”(基金号:71972008);国家社会科学基金重大项目“企业创新主体地位强化及技术创新能力提升研究”(基金号:21ZDA012)的资助。

摘　　要：智能互联产品作为物联网时代的产物,其“物”与“物”智能连接的特征,模糊了传统企业边界,助力企业实现指数级增长。本文对小米展开纵向案例研究,探讨小米如何通过发展智能互联产品,推动企业边界持续拓展的过程及其背后关键要素。研究发现:第一,智能互联产品不仅产生了物物“新型分工”属性,还有物物“智能连接”的新属性;第二,智能互联产品的“新型分工”属性进一步提高效率、降低成本,改变了企业边界范围;第三,智能互联产品的“智能连接”属性形成大规模、跨边界、高集成的连接,并进一步推动产品体系智能化,实现企业边界快速扩张与企业指数级增长。这一发现颠覆了基于产品与知识分工决定企业边界的传统理论。本研究结论将为企业通过智能互联产品重塑企业边界、实现物联网战略转型,提供启示与借鉴。Smart connected products are the new things of the Internet of Things era,and their smart connection between "things" and "things" blurs the boundaries of traditional enterprises and helps enterprises achieve exponential growth.This article uses Xiaomi as a case to conduct a longitude case study to explore how Xiaomi promotes the continuous expansion of enterprise boundaries through the development of smart connected products and the key elements behind it.The research finds that:First,smart connected products not only produce the "new division of labor" attribute of things,but also the new attribute of "smart connection" of things;Second,the "new division of labor" attribute of smart connected products further improves efficiency,reduces costs,and changes the boundaries of enterprises;Third,the "smart connection" attribute of smart connected products forms a large-scale,span-boundary,and highly integrated connection,and further promotes the intellectualization of the product system to achieve rapid expansion of enterprise boundaries and exponential growth of enterprises.This discovery overturned the theory that the division of labor based on traditional products and knowledge determines the boundaries of the firm.The conclusions of this study provide inspiration and reference for how companies can reshape enterprise boundaries and achieve strategic transformation of the Internet of Things through the development of smart connected products.

关 键 词：智能互联产品 产品智能连接 企业边界 物联网 案例研究 

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