The Essential Impact of Context on Organizational Behavior

2006-04-01articleAcademy of Management Review3,540 citationsclosed

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Management Theory and Practice Job Satisfaction and Organizational Behavior Management and Organizational Studies

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.

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