Contextual Factors in Organizational Decision Making

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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