Toward a Contingency Theory of Multibusiness Organization Design
为多业务企业开发了一个组织设计的权变模型，并与单业务权变研究对比，指出管理对情境变量的影响程度、因果关系的性质以及变量分布方式三方面的差异。
In this paper I develop a contingency model of organization design for multibusiness enterprises — those competing simultaneously in several different business areas — and compare this model to the one underlying most single-business contingency research. Three important differences emerge: (1) the degree to which management influences contextual variables, (2) the nature of the casual relationship between contextual and organizational variables, and (3) the way in which these two kinds of variables are distributed.