Multilevel Methods and Statistics: The Next Frontier
回顾了组织科学中多层次方法与统计的发展历程和最新进展，总结了八篇专题文章的主题，并指出了未来需要解决的关键问题和研究方向。
The purpose of this article is to take stock of extant multilevel methodological and statistical work and highlight needed areas for future research. A basic overview of the history and progression of multilevel methods and statistics in the organizational sciences is provided, as well as a discussion of recent developments to summarize the current state of the science. The eight articles in the current feature topic are also summarized and integrated to depict several themes and directions for the next wave of multilevel methods and statistics. Last, to highlight what still needs to be accomplished in the field, several unresolved issues and future research topics are noted and an agenda related to future multilevel work is discussed.