Some scholars have argued strenuously against the idea that the organization is determined by its situation and have instead asserted that managers have free choice and are thereby to be held morally accountable (Bourgeois 1984; Whittington 1989). Contingency theory appears to some critics to be a managerially convenient ideology that justifies as inevitable organizational characteristics that are not really inevitable, because they are not really required for organizational effectiveness, and that injure the interests of employees (Schreyogg, 1980). Thus contingency theory is opposed by free choice.


The contingency theory of organizations, 2001

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Some scholars have argued strenuously against the idea that the organization is determined by its situation and have instead asserted that managers...

Some scholars have argued strenuously against the idea that the organization is determined by its situation and have instead asserted that managers...

Some scholars have argued strenuously against the idea that the organization is determined by its situation and have instead asserted that managers...

Some scholars have argued strenuously against the idea that the organization is determined by its situation and have instead asserted that managers...