Abstract In this study, we investigated the case of Chenguang Bio, the world’s invisible champion of many industries. By examining the boundary evolution of Chenguang Bio, we found that a key to enterprise growth is to handle the relationship between boundary stability and boundary spanning. Specifically, when resources are scarce, enterprises should focus on technology specificity to stabilize enterprise boundaries and incrementally develop technology generalizability to span enterprise boundaries. Our findings show that: the technical specificity of enterprises is conducive to improving product quality, efficiency, and competitiveness, and realizing the continuous stability of enterprise boundaries. Based on the further transformation of technology specificity into technology versatility, it is beneficial for enterprises to expand multi-category and multi-industry fields to continuously span the boundaries of enterprises. Entrepreneurship and the industry-university-research boundary fusion mechanism is the basic condition for the mutual transformation and continuous innovation of enterprise technology specificity and versatility.
CAO Xin,OUYANG Taohua,ZHANG Sixuan等. Stabilizing and Spanning Organizational Boundary: A Case Study of Chenguang Biology[J]. Chinese Journal of Management, 2022, 19(4): 475-.
