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Contingency Theory: Some Suggested Directions
Henry L. Tosi,John W. Slocum +1 more
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In this paper, the authors argue that complex relationships exist among environmental, organizational, and individual/group variables, and that these relationships and their salience change with the strategic and organizational design choices made by members of the dominant coalition.About:
This article is published in Journal of Management.The article was published on 1984-04-01. It has received 291 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Contingency theory & Contingency.read more
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The Concept of Fit in Strategy Research: Towards Verbal and Statistical Correspondence
TL;DR: Six perspectives of fit are identified, each implying distinct theoretical meanings and requiring the use of specific analytical schemes, and explicit links between theoretical propositions and operational tests are argued for.
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Three Types of Perceived Uncertainty About the Environment: State, Effect, and Response Uncertainty
TL;DR: In this paper, three types of perceived uncertainty about the environment are described and their implications for the behavior of an organization's administrators are discussed, and the failure to differentiate between these types may explain some of the confusion about environmental uncertainty.
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Alternative forms of fit in contingency theory.
TL;DR: In this article, the authors examined the selection, interaction, and systems approaches to fit in structural contingency theory and empirically examined as related to a taskcontingency theory of work-unit design in 629 employment security units in California and Wisconsin.
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Contingency Perspectives of Organizational Strategy: A Critical Review of the Empirical Research
Ari Ginsberg,N. Venkatraman +1 more
TL;DR: A two-level scheme for reviewing contingency theory research on organizational strategy is proposed in this paper, which employs a systems model for delineating the domain of contingency perspectives on strategy research at the first level and incorporates relevant analytical dimensions at the second level.
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Organizational Design Types, Tracks and the Dynamics of Strategic Change
Royston Greenwood,C. R. Hinings +1 more
TL;DR: The particular track followed by an organization will be a function of the degree of alignment or compatibility between structures and contingency constraints, the pattern of commitment to prevailing and alternative interpretive schemes and the incidence of interest dissatisfaction of powerful groups.
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A Behavioral Theory of the Firm
Richard M. Cyert,James G. March +1 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors present an overview of basic concepts in the Behavioral Theory of the Firm, and present a specific price and output model for a specific type of products. But they do not discuss the relationship between the two concepts.
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