WHERE ARE THE NEW THEORIES OF ORGANIZATION?
指出当代管理研究使用的组织理论大多形成于1960-70年代，尽管组织规模与影响力剧增，新理论却鲜有出现。该专题论坛的论文虽未提出全新理论，但做出了两项独特贡献。
This Special Topic Forum was inspired by the observation that most of the theories of organization used by contemporary management researchers were formulated several decades ago, largely in the 1960s and 1970s, and that these theories have persisted, largely intact, since that time.This is so, in spite of massive growth and change in the size, prevalence and influence of organizations in modern society.Organizational theory, as Davis (2010: 691) has observed, can sometimes appear like a "living museum of the 1970s."Where, we asked, are the new theories of organization?Few of the papers we received in response to our call actually offered new theories of organization.In retrospect, this was perhaps an overly ambitious expectation on our part.The papers that comprise this Special Topic Forum, however, offer an arguably more interesting interpretation of our call.Rather than generating new theories, they collectively make two unique contributions.