Imitation is ubiquitous, yet the comparative efficacy of imitation strategies is poorly understood. A popular imitation strategy, sometimes called benchmarking, “mixes-and-matches” the practices common to leading firms. Using computational models, we compare benchmarking to the...

Contingency theory recognizes that an important factor of survival of the organizations is their attitude to adopt diverse type of structural configurations depending on the environmental changes. This article attempts to show that the pragmatic character of the contributions of this approach,...