MANAGERS’ PROTOTYPES OF FINANCIAL TERMS
通过现象学方法，从金融行业管理者样本中收集数据，揭示了他们对财务术语的原型内容，验证了原型概念在组织分类中的适用性。
ABSTRACT Like most experience, people endow organizations with meaning. Meaninggiving has been explained as a categorization process of matching stimuli against prototypes. This study explores the applicability of such a view to organizations by focusing on a central component of the perspective ‐ prototypes. A phenomenological design is used to uncover the content of organizational prototypes. Data collected from a sample of managers in the financial industry demonstrate the utility of the prototype notion, indicating that further exploration is warranted of how organizations are categorized.