As you refine your organizational structure, you will have to review your managerial philosophy to determine its effectiveness. One popular strategy is to implement the contingency theory of ...

Battilana, Julie, and Tiziana Casciaro. "Change Agents, Networks, and Institutions: A Contingency Theory of Organizational Change." Academy of Management Journal 55, no. 2 (April 2012).

Contingency and path theories are ways of analyzing leadership. Contingency theories emphasize the many variables that can differ in any given situation that make one context different from another.

Critics have argued that organization theories which "work" are obvious to practitioners; that is, the theories simply confirm relationships that are already well understood by experienced managers.

COVID-19 hurt supply chains. Will conflict in Ukraine stress them further? It is obviously having a huge effect on a number of sectors, most notoriously on energy markets, which have an immediate ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract This paper examines the management control-system design of mid-19th century U. S. slave plantations using a contingency theory framework.