Donaldson, Lex - In: Australian Journal of Management 9 (1984) 2, pp. 15-24
. However, some diachronic studies of changes in contingency and structure have not produced the results expected. The … contingency determinism rather than contingency-fit. The former posits that a change in contingency directly causes a change in … structure. The latter states that it is the lack of fit, a mismatch between contingency and structure, which leads to structural …