LEVELS ISSUES IN THEORY DEVELOPMENT, DATA-COLLECTION, AND ANALYSIS
LEVELS ISSUES IN THEORY DEVELOPMENT, DATA-COLLECTION, AND ANALYSIS
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DOI：
10.2307/258703
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发表时间：
1994-04-01
影响因子：
16.4
通讯作者：
HALL, RJ
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作者：
KLEIN, KJ;DANSEREAU, F;HALL, RJ
尽管过去的恳求组织理论家和研究人员更仔细地解决层次问题，层次问题继续引起混乱和组织文献中的争议。我们强调了三个替代假设，在整个组织行为的理论层次的规范的基础：（a）同质性较高的水平单位，（B）独立于较高的水平单位，（c）异质性较高的水平单位。这些假设影响理论结构和命题的性质，理想情况下，也应该影响数据收集，分析和解释。对层次问题的更多关注将加强组织理论的发展和研究。
Despite past entreaties to organizational theorists and researchers to address levels issues more carefully, levels issues continue to arouse confusion and controversy within the organizational literature. We highlight three alternative assumptions that underlie the specification of levels of theory throughout organizational behavior: (a) homogeneity within higher level units, (b) independence from higher level units, and (c) heterogeneity within higher level units. These assumptions influence the nature of theoretical constructs and propositions and should, ideally, also influence data collection, analysis, and interpretation. Greater attention to levels issues will strengthen organizational theory development and research.