Towards an Objective Classification Scheme for Organizational Task Environments
复制、改进并简化了Dess和Beard（1984）提出的环境维度操作化方案，基于60个行业16年数据验证了丰裕性、动态性和复杂性三个维度的可行性，并用判别分析简化了计算过程。
SUMMARY This study replicates, refines, cross‐validates and simplifies a scheme of operationalization and measurement of environmental dimensions proposed by Dess and Beard (1984). Employing a sample of 60 industries and data over a 16‐year period, this study found considerable support for the viability of the three dimensions of munificence, dynamism and complexity. The data intensive and computationally complex operationalization scheme was simplified using a discriminant analysis approach and the discriminant functions were cross‐validated using an alternate data set.