A contingency is a potential negative event that may occur in the future, such as a natural disaster, fraudulent activity, or ...

Applying the contingency theory of management requires managers to stay alert and avoid relying on rules, policies and tradition as the only guides for their choices.

It is proposed that congruence and contingency are central features of Dubin's conditions for constructing and testing a theoretical model. Placing congruence and contingency research within an ...

Organization Science, Vol. 13, No. 3, Knowledge, Knowing, and Organizations (May - Jun., 2002), pp. 274-289 (16 pages) This paper examines the validity of knowledge as a contingency variable. Building ...