My library button
Book cover of The Contingency Theory of Organizations

The Contingency Theory of Organizations

by Lex Donaldson ยท 2001

ISBN: 0761915745 9780761915744

Category: Business & Economics / Management

Page count: 326

Written by one of the foremost scholars in the field, this volume presents a comprehensive, in-depth analysis of the theories, evidence and methodological issues of contingency theory - one of the major theoretical lenses used to view organizations. It includes both an appreciation of the coherency of contingency theory overall and a frank recognition of some of the deficiencies in contingency theory research. The coherent underlying model provides the platform from which to make good some of the deficiencies through a series of improvements in theory and method that chart the course for future research.