Categorizing Categorization Research: Review, Integration, and Future Directions
系统综述1999-2012年间组织类别与分类的文献，识别约100篇核心论文，分析关键维度和趋势，发现直到近期该领域才被确认为独立文献体系，并提出整合定义和未来研究方向。
Abstract This paper offers a systematic review of the literature on organizational categories and categorization published in the last 14 years (1999–2012). After identifying a core of roughly 100 papers on categories that appeared in management, organization, and sociology journals, we classified them based on several key dimensions, and analysed a few trends within the categorization literature. Our most surprising finding may be the fact that until recently, there was no mutual recognition of the existence of a distinct ‘literature on categories’ despite the wealth of published material on the topic. After summarizing some core theoretical features of that emergent literature, we propose integrative definitions of its core constructs and suggest several areas of research that could further enrich it in the future.