ABSTRACT
The contingency theory used to describe the behaviour of El Nasr Automotive Manufacturing Company (NASCO) should therefore include ways to incorporate the environment and its influence. For the analysis of NASCO analysts must ask to what extent the rational behaviour is characteristic also for NASCO in general and whether NASCO's behaviour in materials management, in particular, can be explained by the contingency theory. Different perspectives, however, give a different signification of rationality. Rationality, or lack of rationality, on one level may be regarded vice versa on another level, and rationality from one perspective may look different from another. Different forms of uncertainty give rise to different forms of rational behaviour which in turn give rise to different measures. These measures thus express a rational behaviour within a given value system. The chapter explores some examples of management behaviour at NASCO that illustrate why a non-Egyptian model is not complete as a description model of this management behaviour.
