... works of this article (for both commercial and non-commercial purposes), subject to full attribution to the original publication and authors. The full terms of this licence may be seen at Link to the terms of the CC BY 4.0 licence . Contingency Theory addresses this limitation by emphasizing...

... Managers should tailor flexibility strategies to environmental conditions, prioritizing speed in dynamic markets and variety in complex ones. Originality/value Distinguishing between speed and variety advances the contingency theory, providing a more precise framework for aligning SF with environmental...

... and navigation and control issues. Design/methodology/approach The methodology involves identifying seven essential criteria for drone evaluation, guided by contingency theory. The BWM derives optimal weights for each criterion by comparing the best and worst alternatives. The SMCDM incorporates different...

...Rameshwar Dubey; Angappa Gunasekaran; Stephen J. Childe © Emerald Publishing Limited 2018 Emerald Publishing Limited Licensed re-use rights only The authors grounded the theoretical framework in two perspectives: the dynamic capabilities view and contingency theory. To test the research...

... inconclusive results (Boyd et al., 2011 ; Zona et al., 2013). Contingency theory argues that there is no one best way of organizing and that contextual factors play a key role in determining the effectiveness of a given “structure” (Birkinshaw et al., 2002). Some studies support...

...-up phase, while answering the research questions. In the following paragraphs, inputs from EO literature are used to propose improvement in theoretical specification for identifying young firms’ configurations. Organizational theory Fuzzy sets Small firms Qualitative methods Contingency...

... – Contingency theory is applied to a data set of 376 Italian clothing SMEs during the period 2000-2010 to test whether investment in R&D and advertising impacts financial performance differently when contingent factors (such as market share, financial leverage and business model change) are taken...

... the other dimension concerns the adaptation of the offer to customers’ requirements. The freedom of action and optimum strategies to reach high performance vary within the frame given by the two dimensions. Strategy Strategic planning Optimization Performance Contingency theory © MCB UP...

... as the godfathers, champions, and role models described in a later section of this article: In the end, leaders have to work with the people they have got” (Tichy and Sherman[ 12 , p. 175]). Competences Contingency theory Functional specialization Intelligence Leadership Murphy suggests...

.... 3refreezing the new level. Contingency theory Management Models Organizational change Many theories have been developed over the past 100 years for the design and running of organizations. One of the main characteristics of these theories has been the attempt not only to prescribe what...

... by a more efficient organization of the process are usually issues of great concern. A model is structured following the principles of normative contingency theory[ 21 , 22 ], and aims at reconciling some of the most interesting results of behaviouralorganizational studies of CB with financial theory...

... behaviour. © MCB UP Limited 1994 Beliefs Contingency theory Corporate culture Equity Expectancy theory Motivation Performance levels Values Practitioners and scholars alike have, from a number of viewpoints,become interested in organizations as cultures. Writers state that while...