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Toward a contingency model of organizational commitment
<p>This exploratory study examines the relationship between organizational commitment and environmental variability. In an in-depth survey of 65 nurses, three types of organizational commitment-- attitudinal, calculative, and integrative-- are measured. Subsequently, each of these three types is …
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A Test of Fiedler's Leadership Contingency Model in Three Organizational Settings
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A contingency model of strategy, performance measurement systems and management accounting practices: an empirical investigation in English local authorities. Volume 1 of 2
Contingency based research has been used extensively within the area of accounting control (Chapman, 1997; Chenhall, 2003; Gerdin and Greeve, 2004), though there is a lacuna of contingency research within not-for-profit organisations (Chenhall, 2003), particularly in the UK. The study?s overall …
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The Institutional Contingencies of Business Innovation In Low-Income Markets: The Global Growth and Commercialization of Microfinance, 1998-2008
… this study, I develop and test an institutional-contingency model for explaining business innovation in low-income markets of less-developed countries. To build the model, I begin with the basic insight of the BOP literature: that there exist both social and business motives for firms to enter …
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Uncertainty in task environment and causes of leadership succession: A decision process approach
… managerial theory, power-political theory and contingency theory are critically reviewed and a decision process model of executive succession is proposed as an alternative. The strength of each model was tested using the sample of 157 large manufacturing companies between 1978-1982. The …
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Organizational Complexity, Plan Adequacy, and Nursing Home Resiliency: A Contingency Perspective
… indicators of resiliency. Therefore, a testable contingency model was needed to clarify resiliency factors pertinent to organizational performance. Two essential resiliency factors were: 1) a written plan and 2) affiliation with a disaster network. This contingency study demonstrated a …
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An exploration of retention practices in the IT industry
… the application of a best practice retention model in IT organizations. The model consists of the six factors most cited in the literature to affect turnover, namely, orientation, training, career development, motivation, compensation, and feedback/evaluation. Three main aspects of retention …
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Engagement behavior on Facebook and the relationship between managers and consumers: the case of Icelandair
… comments and shares by using a conceptual model by de Vries, Gensler and Leeflang (2012). The results indicated that social posts, pictures and the interaction call-to-action had a positive effect on engagement. Furthermore, promotional posts and the interactivity a question in posts had a …
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The effects of budget emphasis, budgetary participation, trust and organisational commitment on job related tension and propensity to create slack : Empirical evidence from Norway
… been contradictory. Subsequent studies using the contingency model to resolve these conflicting results have identified budgetary participation (Brownell, 1982a) and trust (Ross, 1994) as important moderating variables. With respect to participation, a number of prior studies found that a …
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A contingency approach to the effectiveness of agenda sales strategies
… or eliminating choice alternatives. A conceptual model compatible with Weitz's Contingency Model of Salesperson Effectiveness was developed and tested. It was hypothesized that the effectiveness of agenda sales presentations is moderated by buyer expertise, the buyer/seller relationship, and the …
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ORGANIZATIONAL CULTURE OF A NON-PROFIT ORGANIZATION: A STUDY OF LOCAL CONGREGATIONS OF THE UNITED METHODIST CHURCH
… Based on the application of Fiedler's (1967) Contingency Model of leadership to the church context, it introduces an amended classification of elements influencing leadership effectiveness in religious organizations and proposes a new style of leadership appropriate for this unique context. …
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Status and Integrative Complexity in Decision-Making Groups: Evidence From the United States Supreme Court and a Laboratory Experiment
… in terms of more than one dimension. A "status-contingency model" is proposed to explain the determinants of integrative complexity in decision-making groups. Based on findings from the integrative complexity and social influence literatures, the model predicts higher levels of complexity among …
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Conditional Multifactorial Contingency (CMC) Model and Its Applications
… from statistical analyses of the data. However, modeling such heterogeneities has been challenging, not only due to the inapplicable explicit modeling of all factors with heterogeneous effects on the data, but also because of the non-independence of many factors from one another. Existing …
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Expatriate Adjustment Revisited: An Exploration of the Factors Explaining Expatriate Adjustment in MNCs and UN organizations in Egypt.
… and through testing a traditional adjustment model in an under-researched host context. As a result of the research this thesis proposes a new framework for understanding the factors impacting on adjustment which adopts a contingency perspective and incorporates a stronger focus on …
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A Causal Model of Linkages between Environment and Organizational Structure, and Its Performance Implications in International Service Distribution: An Empirical Study of Restaurant and Hotel Industry
This research develops and tests a model of the service unit ownership and control patterns used by international service companies. The main purpose of this study is to investigate trivariate causal relationships among environmental factors, organizational structure, and perceived performance in …