Structural contingency theory is just one form of contingency theory applied in corporate and other workplace environments. Since structural contingency theory does not depend on a rigid set of rules ...

In the dynamic world of business management, one size rarely fits all when it comes to leadership and organizational strategy. Contingency theory in management recognizes this reality by proposing ...

A chief executive's management style has a direct effect on the success or failure of a company. Situational contingency theory recognizes that leadership in a board room setting uses a different ...

Battilana, Julie, and Tiziana Casciaro. "Change Agents, Networks, and Institutions: A Contingency Theory of Organizational Change." Academy of Management Journal 55, no. 2 (April 2012).

Scholars, and people generally, look at leadership in a very different way than they did a generation ago. Leadership was seen as something that was straightforward, done "by the book," and could be ...