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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.
Bill McKelvey (Mon,) studied this question.