关键词: 技术, 耦合, 企业, technology, coupling, firm

Abstract: The industrial revolution witnessed the rise of the firms; in return the growing firms improved the process of industrial revolution. There must be a kind of generalized causal relationship in the phenomenon emerged in secession. The new complexity science provides a useful way to explain this complex phenomenon. This paper tries to use "coupling theory" explain the origin of the firm, scale and characteristics. The firm is a kind of economic organization in which capital and labor was coupled up by technology, the size of the firm depends on the control variable (technology) of the coupling system. The technology is the hub of a firm and the most important component of the core competitiveness of firm. The explanation of origin of firm by way of coupling theory is novel and powerful.