Contextual Factors in Organizational Decision Making

This article discusses the importance of contextual factors in organizational decision making, focusing on organizational structure, environmental forces, risk management, business practices, and functions of diverse firms. It explores how these factors influence decision making and offers insights for managers and policymakers. The article also provides case studies and theoretical frameworks to support its findings.

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Table of Contents
1. Introduction..................................................................................................................................2
2. Main contextual factors that are discussed in the journal articles...............................................2
2.1 Organizational structure.........................................................................................................2
2.2 Environmental forces.............................................................................................................3
2.3 Risk confronting the firm.......................................................................................................4
2.4 Organization and business practices......................................................................................5
2.5 Functions of diverse firms.....................................................................................................5
Conclusion.......................................................................................................................................6
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1. Introduction
The paper mainly reflects on the contextual factors that are generally significant for
organizational decision making. The main aim of the paper is to review a number of journal
articles in order to analyze the new findings that are related with the contextual factor. It is found
that the concept of contextual factors are mainly associated with the approach that is mainly used
by the top managers in order to successfully deal with the strategic decisions. The contextual
factors are helpful in influencing the organizational environment, nature of the problem as well
as on the different style of leadership. It is analyzed that knowledge specific to these two areas
generally helps in allowing a significant improvement in context to the ability of predicting the
utilization of a proper decision approach while the various types of dimension that is mainly
selected in order to represent the leadership style that generally seem to have proper influence on
the selection of proper method.
2. Main contextual factors that are discussed in the journal articles
2.1 Organizational structure
The paper mainly reflects on the structural marketing by utilizing the organizational
structure in order to achieve marketing based objectives. It is found that both the business
practitioners as well as academics generally recognizing the significance of the entire
organizational structure based on marketing (Lee, Kozlenkova & Palmatier, 2015). The research
that is generally undertaken helps in properly examining the effects of various organizational
structures in order to design various elements depending on the marketing outcomes that
generally remains fragmented as well as scare. In addition to this, the article helps in
synthesizing as well as proper extending the understanding how the organization generally

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utilizes structural elements for achieving proper marketing objectives in order to offer new
perspectives that are generally associated with the structural marketing. In context to the research
goal, it is identified that this cross-disciplinary review of the organizational structure is done
within the various theories that are mainly associated with the field of marketing in order to
inform proper assessment of empirical findings from different marketing literatures.
Furthermore, it is found that this synthesis assists in properly introducing the concept that is
based on structural marketing as the article helps in offering proper theoretical concept as well as
proper propositions for supporting the initial work for utilizing the design of the organizational
structure by using various strategic marketing based variables. It is found that various types of
illustrative business related cases are generally helpful in reinforcing the conceptual arguments,
managerial insights as well as tenets.
2.2 Environmental forces
The article reflects on the dynamic political opportunities as well as various types of
environmental forces that are generally linked up. It is found that while the literature is generally
related with the Chinese environment based politics then it mainly helps in properly examining
the NGO based actions and mainly engage in protesting against the two different facets of
environmental based activism. This new phenomenon is generally helpful in highlighting within
the case of local opposition which is generally against the political opportunity based theory. It is
found that two linkages are generally determined namely the linkage between local as well as
supra local NGOs (Sun, Huang & Yip, 2017). It is found that this type of linkages that generally
emerged with the help of political opportunities as well as contentious actions are mainly
determined. The protests that are generally citizen initiated mainly helps in pressurizing the
government for adopting receptive attitudes in order to maintain proper stability socially which

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illogically expanded the various political prospects for the NGO’s participants by properly
activating different social platforms among the members of NGO. It is found that the analysis on
the basis of dynamic linkages are generally helpful within the environmental forces as it assists
in reflecting different prospects of environmental movement with its appropriate relation within
the political contexts. Furthermore, it is found that the protests can generally lead to the
destruction by the local government and thus it helps in closing down different political
opportunities.
2.3 Risk confronting the firm
The article mainly focusses on the management of supply chain as well as vulnerabilities
with the help of collaboration. It is found that mitigating a specific risk is mainly considered as
one of the critical risk within the management as the entire research generally lacks proper
unified framework based investigation relationship within different risks, collaboration,
performance as well as risk management (Ali & Shukran, 2016). It is found that the paper
mainly proposes a proper framework that helps in properly examining the relationship that exists
between risks. In addition to this, it is found that this particular framework further helps in
investigating the importance of mediating role within the entire risk management procedure in
order to improve the performance of the firm in context to supply chain. It is found that the
particular framework is further reinforced with the various types of assumptions that are mainly
based on different contingency theory as well as relational view. Furthermore, the study helps in
conducting proper pilot test within the Australian industry which is mainly vulnerable to
different types of risks because of perishable nature of the product as well as due to uncertain
weather conditions. Furthermore, the paper is generally helpful in enhancing the understanding

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of the managers about the divergent risk and about the various risk management measures that
are generally utilized for successfully dealing with the project risks.
2.4 Organization and business practices
The article mainly investigates socially sustainable business practices within the Indian
manufacturing industry. It is found that the paper mainly helps in examining the socially
sustainable business practices that are generally adopted by the organization from two different
sectors. The main reason for the selection of the company from different sectors generally assists
in creating huge divergence as well as proper economic development (Mani et al., 2016). The
study further helps in exploring different types of activities under different social dimensions
across the supply chain that generally pays proper attention to various drivers of the business
practices as well as lessons that are generally learned from them. The case study that is generally
undertaken is generally helpful in properly exploring the differences as well as similarities within
the socially sustainable which are generally adopted by the two companies. The research is
considered to be beneficial for the supply chain managers as well as for the policy makers in
order to provide proper crucial insights in order to make appropriate decisions that are generally
related with social sustainability. Furthermore, the practices of social sustainability are generally
elaborated in a proper way such that the corporate can be able to interact with the people
spanning across the three different tiers in terms of properly addressing the safety, health, wages
as well as labors that generally leads to the sustainability of the firms. However, it is found that
this type of measures generally acts as scant within the developing economies although the
companies are very much responsible for the actions of the suppliers that are mainly associated
with the health safety etc. in order to enhance sustainability within the firm.

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2.5 Functions of diverse firms
The paper mainly reflects on the organization functions within the knowledge based
entities. The paper focuses on emphasizing the changes that occur at the various level of the
organization within the knowledge based entities. It is found that there are mainly three types of
approaches that helps in affecting the functions regarding the ascendancy of some functions as
well as different types of activities that general referred as the emergence of new function based
elements (Nicolescu, 2018). The changes in the nature as well as size of the company generally
changes as the changes that are associated with the transition to knowledge based economy as
well as knowledge that is generally accompanied by the various mutations within the functions
of the organization. The main categories of changes within the business functions are generally
dependent on knowledge. It has been observed from the entire paper that acceleration of
transition to knowledge based economies as well as organizations generally need to understand
the trends that helps in properly manifesting the various knowledge based entities as the
procedure of reconfiguration generally occurs within the management as well as within the
organization. The managers who generally wants to be effective with the various changes that
further manifests at different level of functions as well as activities helps in adapting to the
business as well as their mutations. Furthermore, it is found that in order to successfully facing
the challenges that are generally generated by the new type of economy needs to contract with
one or more number of services that are generally provided by the firms of training as well as
consultancy within the domain of proper knowledge management.
Conclusion
It can be concluded after analyzing the five different types of contextual factors that
proper organizational structure is very much important within the four banks for improving the

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performance of the organization. The four different banks generally include Commonwealth
banks of Australia, Westpac, ANZ as well as NAB. The organizational structure is considered to
be important as it helps in providing proper guidance to the employers for properly governing the
workflow of the organization. Proper organization structure helps in setting priorities, determines
functions as well as outlines the execution of various priorities and functions that are generally
helps in managing the business operations properly and are helpful in taking proper decision
related with the business whenever necessary. Furthermore the organizational structure helps in
clarifying the roles and responsibilities of the team members by removing the obstacles that are
mainly caused by the uncertainty of the assignment in order to properly furnish the decision
making as well a communication network that generally helps in reflecting as well as supporting
the objectives of the enterprise.

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