Organizational Theories: Some Criteria for Evaluation
提出一套基本规则和词汇，以促进对组织与管理理论结构的聚焦讨论，并开发了一个评估理论变量、构念及关系的矩阵，可用于定义好理论的必要组成部分及评估比较不同理论的质量。
A set of ground rules and vocabulary to facilitate focused discussion about the structure of organization and management theories are proposed. The many previous efforts at defining and evaluating theory help establish criteria for theory construction and evaluation. In the establishment of these criteria, description is distinguished from theory, and a matrix of criteria for evaluating the variables, constructs, and relationships that together compose a theory is developed. The proposed matrix may be useful both for defining the necessary components of good theory and for evaluating and/or comparing the quality of alternative theories. Finally, a discussion of the way theories fit together to give a somewhat broader picture of empirical reality reveals the lines of tension between the two main criteria for evaluating theory.