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A crisis in an enterprise is an extremely difficult situation which company managers need to deal with. The enterprise may take all kinds of remedial actions. Ranging from conservative measures, through moderate to very radical ones. These steps may be aimed at counteracting the effects of the past or focused on looking towards the future of the organisation. The type of actions that managers take depends on many factors discussed in the paper. These factors result from the organisation's external and internal environment, the nature of the crisis, as well as the manager's personality. The paper proposes an original model of determinants of managers' behaviour in a crisis situation. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Background. Nowadays many research results in management are not able to be compared to one another. Scientists seem to build isolated ontologies, use incompatible research methods and draw conclusions which are at least neutral to each other. Thus, a new methodological approach could allow us to overcome these obstacles. Research aims. The goal of this paper is to make a contribution to a methodology of research in management science in the field of theoretical research and drawing theoretical conclusions, by presenting a new approach to the analysis of managers' behaviour. Method. Presented approach to the analysis of managers' behaviour is based on facts theory and the system of organizational terms. Such a basis lets us use graph theory to recognize patterns in managers' behaviour. Key findings. The graph-based pattern matching is useful to analyse managerial behaviour when the managers take part in management processes. Indispensable theoretical concept for this is the system on organizational terms based on the facts theory. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]