… Thus, taken together, the challenges to structural contingency theory of being a supposedly
static, equilibrium theory which fails to deal with organizational change or explain how …

… We develop a contingency theory for how … change in organizations. Using longitudinal
survey data supplemented with eight in-depth case studies, we analyze 68 organizational change …

… Throughout much of this book a unifying idea is that the dynamics of organizational
change in contingency theory are best captured by the structural adaptation to regain fit (SARFIT) …

… that the microcontingency theory embodied in VDT-3 can be used to predict organizational
breakdowns, and to evaluate alternative organizational changes to mitigate identified risks. …

… By adopting a contingencystyle approach, they leave themselves … contingency theory itself:
in particular, that organizations still have no choice – they must identify the key contingencies …

… This article reviews the literature on the contingency theory of management accounting since
the 1980 review by the author. It traces the expansion of this literature and critically outlines …

… contingency theory, reflecting the fact that his was the only such approach around at the time,
and thus had the contingency … Contingency theory has had a long history, extending back …

… Contingency theory assumes that observed tendencies in organizational changes have to
be an efficient way of organizing otherwise better solutions should have appeared and spread…

… Contingency theories and a contingency perspective are popular among researchers in
organization theory … fit between contingency variables and organizational design parameters will …

… Thus, the contingency theory notion advanced at the beginning of this study about economizing
on organizational integration expenses by allocating them according to the presence of …