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The Essential Impact of Context on Organizational Behavior
Academy of Management Review · 2006 · Vol. 31(2) · pp. 386–408
Gary Johns✉(Concordia University)
Abstract
I argue that the impact of context on organizational behavior is not sufficiently recognized or appreciated by researchers. I define context as situational opportunities and constraints that affect the occurrence and meaning of organizational behavior as well as functional relationships between variables, and I propose two levels of analysis for thinking about context–one grounded in journalistic practice and the other in classic social psychology. Several means of contextualizing research are considered.
Job Satisfaction and Organizational BehaviorPsychology of Social InfluenceManagement and Organizational StudiesOrganizational behaviorAffect (linguistics)Context (archaeology)Situational ethicsMeaning (existential)PsychologyIndustrial and organizational psychologySocial psychologyOrganizational studiesOrganizational change
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