Use and development of contingency theory

Abstract

There is no universal way to manage an organization. Contingency theory helps to develop organization’s design using subsystems in combination with an environment. The present article analyses development of contingency theory since 1998. The study used componential and document analysis method - study was made based on semantic approach using publications in scientific journals included in Web of Science or Scopus database; publications were manually selected. One research proposition was developed to focus the study, it claimed – contingency theory continues to be used to analyse specific situational factors. Our research study showed that contingency theory during last 20 years was affected by internal and external situational factors and interacted with various systems.