Two major areas of organizational theory are considered in this thesis. The first is concerned with the development of a configuration based approach. This develops contingency theory by taking a more holistic view, . looking for patterns amongst many different aspects of organizations, rather than reducing organizations to simple bivariate relationships. Previously, this had only been used at a macro organizational level. This research extended the configurational approach and identified microconfigurations of departments or work units within organizations. The benefit of doing this is that it allows a far more detailed picture of organizations to be obtained. Variables were selected for inclusion in the micro-configurations on the basis of a detailed survey of the contingency field. Thus, the approach was used to synthesise much of the existing contingency research in organizational theory.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:bl.uk/oai:ethos.bl.uk:385986 |
| Date | January 1993 |
| Creators | Duberley, Joanne P. |
| Publisher | Loughborough University |
| Source Sets | Ethos UK |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Electronic Thesis or Dissertation |
| Source | https://dspace.lboro.ac.uk/2134/27842 |
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