Contingency theory

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Contingency theory

Quality:

Contingency theory - organizational theory concerning companies. Article "Contingency theory" in English Wikipedia has 30.1 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 16 references and 9 sections.

This article has the best quality in German Wikipedia. However, this article is the most popular in English version.

Since the creation of article "Contingency theory", its content was written by 64 registered users of English Wikipedia and edited by 267 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 48 times in English Wikipedia and cited 184 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

  • Local (English): #85524 in September 2011
  • Global: #70609 in May 2006

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

  • Local (English): #44272 in December 2014
  • Global: #36963 in March 2016

There are 12 language versions for this article in the WikiRank database (of the considered 55 Wikipedia language editions).

The quality and popularity assessment was based on Wikipédia dumps from July 1, 2025 (including revision history and pageviews for previous years).

The table below shows the language versions of the article with the highest quality.

Languages with the highest quality

#LanguageQuality gradeQuality score
1German (de)
Situativer Ansatz
37.7635
2Chinese (zh)
權變理論
34.2353
3English (en)
Contingency theory
30.0859
4Portuguese (pt)
Teoria da contingência
23.6657
5French (fr)
École de la contingence
20.5059
6Korean (ko)
상황이론
19.0335
7Arabic (ar)
إدارة موقفية
12.9141
8Vietnamese (vi)
Lý thuyết quyền biến
10.7205
9Japanese (ja)
コンティンジェンシー理論
9.3313
10Hebrew (he)
תאוריית התלות (ניהול)
4.5153
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The following table shows the most popular language versions of the article.

Most popular in all the time

The most popular language versions of the article "Contingency theory" in all the time
#LanguagePopularity awardRelative popularity
1English (en)
Contingency theory
2 498 477
2Portuguese (pt)
Teoria da contingência
1 565 646
3French (fr)
École de la contingence
371 805
4German (de)
Situativer Ansatz
230 294
5Chinese (zh)
權變理論
140 658
6Japanese (ja)
コンティンジェンシー理論
135 999
7Arabic (ar)
إدارة موقفية
36 513
8Finnish (fi)
Kontingenssiteoria
27 103
9Korean (ko)
상황이론
26 930
10Persian (fa)
نظریه اقتضایی
24 096
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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest popularity in the last month.

Most popular in June 2025

The most popular language versions of the article "Contingency theory" in June 2025
#LanguagePopularity awardRelative popularity
1English (en)
Contingency theory
2 472
2Portuguese (pt)
Teoria da contingência
676
3Chinese (zh)
權變理論
571
4French (fr)
École de la contingence
332
5Korean (ko)
상황이론
178
6Japanese (ja)
コンティンジェンシー理論
175
7German (de)
Situativer Ansatz
124
8Persian (fa)
نظریه اقتضایی
83
9Finnish (fi)
Kontingenssiteoria
43
10Arabic (ar)
إدارة موقفية
39
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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest Authors’ Interest.

The highest AI

Language versions of the article "Contingency theory" with the highest Authors Interest (number of authors). Only registered Wikipedia users were taken into account.
#LanguageAI awardRelative AI
1English (en)
Contingency theory
64
2German (de)
Situativer Ansatz
54
3Portuguese (pt)
Teoria da contingência
50
4French (fr)
École de la contingence
35
5Hebrew (he)
תאוריית התלות (ניהול)
30
6Chinese (zh)
權變理論
10
7Finnish (fi)
Kontingenssiteoria
7
8Vietnamese (vi)
Lý thuyết quyền biến
6
9Arabic (ar)
إدارة موقفية
4
10Persian (fa)
نظریه اقتضایی
3
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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest Authors’ Interest in the last month.

The highest AI in June 2025

Language versions of the article "Contingency theory" with the highest AI in June 2025
#LanguageAI awardRelative AI
1Arabic (ar)
إدارة موقفية
0
2German (de)
Situativer Ansatz
0
3English (en)
Contingency theory
0
4Persian (fa)
نظریه اقتضایی
0
5Finnish (fi)
Kontingenssiteoria
0
6French (fr)
École de la contingence
0
7Hebrew (he)
תאוריית התלות (ניהול)
0
8Japanese (ja)
コンティンジェンシー理論
0
9Korean (ko)
상황이론
0
10Portuguese (pt)
Teoria da contingência
0
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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest number of citations.

The highest CI

Language versions of the article "Contingency theory" with the highest Citation Index (CI)
#LanguageCI awardRelative CI
1French (fr)
École de la contingence
70
2English (en)
Contingency theory
48
3German (de)
Situativer Ansatz
14
4Portuguese (pt)
Teoria da contingência
13
5Chinese (zh)
權變理論
8
6Arabic (ar)
إدارة موقفية
7
7Korean (ko)
상황이론
7
8Japanese (ja)
コンティンジェンシー理論
5
9Persian (fa)
نظریه اقتضایی
4
10Hebrew (he)
תאוריית התלות (ניהול)
3
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Scores

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Quality measures

Interwikis

#LanguageValue
arArabic
إدارة موقفية
deGerman
Situativer Ansatz
enEnglish
Contingency theory
faPersian
نظریه اقتضایی
fiFinnish
Kontingenssiteoria
frFrench
École de la contingence
heHebrew
תאוריית התלות (ניהול)
jaJapanese
コンティンジェンシー理論
koKorean
상황이론
ptPortuguese
Teoria da contingência
viVietnamese
Lý thuyết quyền biến
zhChinese
權變理論

Popularity rank trends

Best Rank English:
#44272
12.2014
Global:
#36963
03.2016

AI rank trends

Best Rank English:
#85524
09.2011
Global:
#70609
05.2006

Languages comparison

Important global interconnections

Wikipedia readers most often find their way to information on Contingency theory from Wikipedia articles about Ikujiro Nonaka, Organizational theory, Fiedler contingency model, Theory X and Theory Y and Contingency. Whereas reading the article about Contingency theory people most often go to Wikipedia articles on Fiedler contingency model, Organizational theory, History of contingency theories of leadership, Fred Edward Fiedler and Wonderful life theory.

Cumulative results of quality and popularity of the Wikipedia article

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