Assigned Reading:
1.A General Contingency Theory of Management
FRED LUTHANS, TODD I. STEWART
2. Problems with Contingency Theory Testing Assumptions Hidden within the Language
Claudia Bird Schoonhoven
3.. Returning to the Frontier of Contingency Theory of Organizational and
Institutional Designs
ANDREW H. VAN DE VEN?, MARTIN GANCO
4.. The Illusion of Contingency Theory as a General Theory
JUSTIN G. LONGENECKER, CHARLES D.PRINGLE
5.. The Mixed Blessings of Contingency Management^
LELAND M. WOOTON
Southern Methodist University
6..The Reality or Illusion of a General Contingency Theory of
Management: A Response to the Longenecker and
Pringle Critique
FRED LUTHANS
University of Nebraska
TODD I. STEWART
Air Force Institute of Technology
7.. A Contingency Theory of Organization Re-Examined in the Context of a
Developing Country
ANANT R. NEGANDHI
Kent State University
BERNARD C. REIMANN^
Drexell University
8..FUTURE DIRECTIONS FOR MANAGEMENT THEORY DEVELOPMENT
DoktoT, Tung, and Von Glinow
9.Global Standardization of Organizational Forms and
Management Practices? What New Institutionalism
and the Business-Systems Approach Can Learn from
Each Other*
Anne Tempel and Peter Walgenbach
University of Erfurt
10 BECOMING AMBICULTURAL: A PERSONAL QUEST, AND ASPIRATION
FOR ORGANIZATIONS
MING-JER CHEN
University of Virginia
11 DEVELOPMENT MANAGEMENT AS REFLECTIVE PRACTICE
DINA ABBOTT1, SUZANNE BROWN2 and GORDON WILSON2*
1Geographical Sciences, Faculty of Education, Health and Sciences, University of Derby,
Derby, UK
2Development Policy and Practice, Faculty of Technology, The Open University,
Milton Keynes, UK