Recently, the paper "Enterprise Organizational Structure Transformation from the Perspective of Robot Technology: Process, Patterns, and Prospects" by the team of Professor Sun Xinbo from the School of Business Administration, NEU, was reprinted in full in the April 2026 issue of Chinese Social Sciences Digest. The paper was originally published in Economic Management, Issue 11, 2025, and was also reprinted in full in Enterprise Management Research, Issue 3, 2026, a reproduced journal of the Information Center for Social Sciences of Renmin University of China. These inclusions attest to the paper's theoretical originality, scholarly significance, and practical relevance, as recognized by the broader academic community.
The paper focuses on rapidly developing and widely applied robot technologies. It analyzes the evolutionary process and operating mechanisms of organizational structure transformation driven by robot technologies at different stages. The study maps both holistic and dimension-specific changes in organizational structures. Based on the process view, it constructs a logical framework of "robot technology characteristics—human-machine relationship—organizational structure form", clarifying the theoretical logic of how technology embeds into organizations and exerts its influence. The study finds that the evolution of the human-machine relationship brings a series of organizational management issues. These issues drive organizational design toward new organizational structure forms that better adapt to robot technologies and are more conducive to problem-solving, thus clarifying the transmission process through which robot technologies influence organizational structure transformation. The paper also identifies three major patterns of organizational structure transformation from the perspective of robot technologies.
Chinese Social Sciences Digest is a comprehensive academic abstract journal supervised by the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences and sponsored by the Social Sciences in China Press. Together with Xinhua Digest and China University Academic Abstracts, it is known as one of the "three major abstract journals". It is also one of the most influential abstract journals in the field of humanities and social sciences. Enterprise Management Research is sponsored by the Information Center for Social Sciences of Renmin University of China. It is an important journal in the discipline of business administration that explores enterprise operations and strategies. These journals adhere to rigorous selection standards and carefully select high-quality original research achievements from authoritative academic journals in China. Inclusion in these journals is an important indicator for measuring the quality and influence of academic papers.
