CONFIGURATIONAL APPROACHES TO ORGANIZATIONAL ANALYSIS.
定义了组织分析的构型方法，追溯其历史，区分权变方法与构型方法，并强调特刊中五篇实证文章的关键贡献，指出构型视角在个体和群体层面有未开发的潜力。
The 1993 Special Research Forum on Configurations is dedicated to the proposition that configurational theory and research can significantly advance understanding of people, groups, and organizations. In this introductory essay, we define configurational approaches to organizational analysis, trace the history of configurational thinking, distinguish the contingency approach from the configurational approach, and highlight key contributions of the five empirical articles that make up the special research forum. Most of these articles report research conducted at the organizational level of analysis, but we argue that the configurational perspective has unrealized potential at other levels as well and suggest some configurational approaches to revitalizing theory and research at the individual and group levels.