"There is no one best way to organize... Any way of organizing is not equally effective."

"Organizational forms — specific configurations of goals, boundaries, and activities — are the elements selected by en…"

"Until the mid-1970s, the prominent approach in organization and management theory emphasized adaptive change in organ…"

"Within organization studies, contingency theory has provided a coherent paradigm for the analysis of the structure of…"

"Contingency theory is an outgrowth of systems theory. This approach essentially argues that the decision-making style…"

"March and Simon's work reflects a key concern with the issue of inducing contributions from organizational members an…"

"This article [entitled A framework for the comparative analysis of organizations (1967)], was one of three independen…"

"Organizational theorists, at least since the pioneering work of Burns and Stalker, 1961 and Joan Woodward, 1965 and o…"

"Contingency Theory is not a theory at all, in the conventional sense of theory as a well-developed set of interrelate…"

"Contingency theory is guided by the general orienting hypothesis that organizations whose internal features best matc…"