Contingency Fit, Institutional Fit, and Firm Performance: A Metafit Approach to Organization-Environment Relationships

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Summary

The results show that contingency and institutional fit provide complementary and interdependent explanations of firm performance, and indicate that for firms under conditions of “quasi fit” rather than perfect contingency fit or optimal institutional fit, improvements in contingency and/or institutional fit will result in better performance.

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2012-07-01
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Contingency, Contingency theory, Interdependence, Set (abstract data type), Institutional theory

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