Contingency theory in management

Abstract

In a presidential speech to the annual conference of the Academy of Management in Seattle, Professor Lyman Porter took as his theme the progress of work in Organizational Behaviour, and noted the long time‐gap between the discovery of ideas in Organizational Behaviour and their application in Organization Development. With some ideas, twenty years have elapsed between their original discovery and the ability to apply them to real‐life situations.

Citation

Redding, G. (1976), "Contingency theory in management", Education + Training, Vol. 18 No. 7, pp. 199-202. https://doi.org/10.1108/eb001929