Claudia Bird Schoonhoven

Works

• Problems with contingency theory: testing assumptions hidden within the language of contingency 'theory', Administrative Science Quarterly 26(3), 349 to 377, 1981

In Organizational Structures

Known for

Testing contingency theory

Ideas

Problems with contingency theory. Schoonhoven showed that contingency statements hide interactive and nonmonotonic assumptions, and found more precise hypotheses better supported in hospital operating room suites. Caveat: One setting.

Organizational Structures that draw on Claudia Bird Schoonhoven (4)

• Federal organization
• J-form (the Japanese firm)
• Shamrock organization
• Stratified hierarchy (requisite organization)