Returning to the Frontier of Contingency Theory of Organizational and Institutional Designs
回顾了从权变到配置、互补性、复杂性和创造性组织理论的演变，呼吁学者采用新研究方法，应对组织设计的新议程。
Much has been learned, and even more needs to be learned, about designing organizations and institutions. Since the 1960s this research has evolved from contingency to configuration, to complementarity, to complexity and creative theories of organizing. This chapter reviews these evolving theories (better called perspectives) and urges scholars to return to the frontier of organization studies by addressing an important new agenda in designing organizations with promising new research methods.