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- Title
Returning to the Frontier of Contingency Theory of Organizational and Institutional Designs.
- Authors
Van de Ven, Andrew H.; Ganco, Martin; Hinings, C. R. (BOB)
- Abstract
Much has been learned, and even more needs to be learned, about designing organizations and institutions. Since the 1960s this research has evolved fromcontingency to configuration, tocomplementarity, tocomplexityandcreativetheories of organizing. This chapter reviews these evolving theories (better called perspectives) and urges scholars to return to the frontier of organization studies by addressing an important new agenda in designing organizations with promising new research methods.
- Subjects
CONTINGENCY theory (Management); LEADERSHIP; ORGANIZATION; RESEARCH; MANAGEMENT
- Publication
Academy of Management Annals, 2013, Vol 7, Issue 1, p393
- ISSN
1941-6067
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.5465/19416520.2013.774981