“…We find external contingent factors related to the external environment (Khandwalla, 1977;Merchant, 1990;Chapmann, 1997;Hartmann, 2000), and the national culture (Hofstede, 1984;Harrison, 1992; O'Connor, 1995), with researchers most often emphasizing the environmental uncertainty and hostility. In equal measure, we find internal factors like the size of the organization (Khandwalla, 1972;Bruns and Waterhouse, 1975;Merchant 1981;Merchant, 1985), the technology (Khandwalla, 1977;Merchant, 1984;Dunk, 1992) and the strategy of the company (Miles andSnow, 1978, Gupta andGovindarajan, 1984;Simons, 1987;Chenhall and Morris, 1986).…”