From Strategic Management to Policy Consensus in a Health-related Crisis:
An Analysis of the National Salmonella Outbreak in the United States
Despite growing attention to understanding those dynamics in strategic management of crises, little research has been conducted on health-related crises using the contingency theory. This study seeks to shed more light on the application of contingency theory in health-related crises by analyzing the recent crisis of salmonella=tainted tomatoes, which was the largest food-borne illness outbreak in the past 10 years.
