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.

本文的目的是盘点现有的多层次方法论和统计工作，并突出说明未来研究所需的领域。提供了组织科学中多层次方法和统计的历史和发展的基本概述，并讨论了最近的发展以总结科学的当前状态。还对当前功能主题中的八篇文章进行了总结和集成，以描述下一波多级方法和统计数据的几个主题和方向。最后，为强调该领域仍需完成的工作，记录了一些未解决的问题和未来的研究主题，并讨论了与未来多层次工作相关的议程。