Mediational Inferences in Organizational Research
这篇引言回顾了中介推断在组织和社会科学中的百年历史，梳理了关键里程碑和思想演变，并提出现代框架，帮助研究者理解该领域的发展方向。
This introductory article for the feature topic on mediation is designed to provide a context for the articles that follow. Specifically, the authors revisit the history of mediational inferences in social and organizational sciences and illustrate how mediational inferences have been evident for more than a century. Some of the important milestones and the evolution of thought leading to today are chronicled. Then a modern-day framework for understanding mediational inferences is outlined that serves to highlight how the articles included in this feature topic contribute to the continued evolution of the bases of mediational inferences. The article concludes with the authors' vision of what may be fruitful directions for future research.