Taxonomic Approaches to Studying Strategy: Some Conceptual and Methodological Issues
探讨了在战略研究中构建分类学的价值，并讨论了变量选择、领域界定、纵向分类、变量操控及绩效纳入等关键问题，为研究者提供实用指导。
Taxonomic inquiry is emerging as an important type of research in the field of strategy. This paper builds a case for strategy taxonomy-building and addresses selected conceptual and methodological issues for researchers interested in such investigations. Among the issues discussed are the following: choosing variables to classify, framing the domain of the taxonomy, developing longitudinal taxonomies, manipulating variables, and incorporating organizational performance into strategic taxonomies. Drawing from the literature and from my own experiences in taxonomic studies, this paper is intended as a special supplement to more generic and technically detailed treatments of numerical classification.