A comparison of seventeen contingency models for system development (SD) led to the conclusion that no model supports all requested activities: diagnosing the context, describing alternative approaches, matching context and approach, looking at social organizational issues, and supporting a dynamic ® t between context and approach. This study paid special attention to the social and organizatio...

this paper proposes a novel approach for coherent generators online clustering in a large power system following a wide area disturbance. an interconnected power system may become unstable due to severe contingency when it is operated close to the stability boundaries. hence, the bulk power system controlled islanding is the last resort to prevent catastrophic cascading outages and wide area bl...

The population-ecology approach (the natural-selection model) used to be a major orientation in consideration of organizational change and transformation. It is presented by its proponents as a theory distinct from structural contingency theory. This theory begins by rejecting the claim of contingency theory that organizations are adaptive. Contingency theory understands that the social and bus...

The contingency approach has been the subject of discussions, criticisms and reformulations, above all because of its huge usage in organizational research (Drazin and Van de Ven, 1985) and in other fields as well, such as information systems (IS) (Weill and Olson, 1989). What motivates the substantial adoption of contingency models and what are the sources of great critics are some of the issu...