Data Aggregation in Organizational Research: The Temporal Dimension
聚焦组织研究中常被忽视的时间维度聚合问题，讨论三个具体问题（区间问题、差异时期问题、形态发生问题），并结合两个研究案例提出解决方案。
This article focusses on an important but often overlooked dimension of aggregation in organizational research, the temporal dimension. As more researchers begin to appreciate the dynamic quality of their subject matter, longitudinal studies will become more common. Lacking fully developed research paradigms, however, such studies are likely to encounter a number of problems. In this paper, three particular problems, the interval problem, the differential period problem, and the morphogenetic problem, are discussed in the context of two concrete studies. The kinds of issues each problem poses are identified and possible solutions are proposed.