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Guidelines for the Empirical Classification of Organizations
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Bill McKelvey After a brief review of organization classification, multivariate approaches toward the empirical identification of such classifications are discussed. Ten guidelines for conducting future multivariate classificatory studies are presented, supported by a critique of two published largescale empirical studies. Taxonomic development is viewed as a critical element in the future health of organization science.
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- Authors
- McKelvey, B.
- Venue
- Administrative Science Quarterly
- Publisher
- JSTOR
- Published
- 1975-12
- Volume
- 20
- Issue
- 4
- Pages
- 509
- ISSN
- 0001-8392 (ISSN-L)
- OpenAlex
- W2084587165
- Cited by
- 230
- References
- 3
- FWCI
- 6.36
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
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