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 ...

Task structure is an important component of the Path-Goal Leadership Theory, which states that a leader's responsibility is to increase her employees' motivation by ensuring a high degree of task ...

Moving away from description of directorate ties as a cooptive device, we test a theory explicitly predicting cooptive uses of corporate directorates from the structure of the market in which firms ...

In this article, the causal structure of Colvin and Pauly's "Integrated Structural-Marxist" theory of delinquent behavior is explicated, and testable hypotheses are examined by using data from the ...