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AbstractThis article presents the findings of clinically based research which investigated the relationship between strategy and formal structure at the product level in five diversified consumer packaged goods firms. The findings establish that this relationship is severely constrained. The article also suggests how firms ‘accommodate’ when unable to match organizational structure with product strat

ISSN:0143-2095    

DOI:10.1002/smj.4250070402

出版商:John Wiley&Sons, Ltd.    

年代:1986

数据来源: WILEY

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AbstractThis paper focuses on middle management motivation to implement strategy. It uses expectancy theory to predict that middle managers will intervene in organizational decision‐making processes leading to strategy implementation when their self‐interest is at stake. It develops the notion of ‘counter effort’, as an extension of expectancy theory. The paper reports an empirical study of middle management intervention theory. The data and analysis of this study provide strong, if indirect, evidence that middle managers who believe that their self‐interest is being compromised can not only redirect a strategy, delay its implementation or reduce the quality of its implementation, but can also even totally sabotage the strategy. Implications of the study for the management of strategy implementation are

ISSN:0143-2095    

DOI:10.1002/smj.4250070403

出版商:John Wiley&Sons, Ltd.    

年代:1986

数据来源: WILEY

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AbstractIt is suggested that senior‐level executives and corporate staff are under mounting pressure to develop better means for assessing organizational environments. This comes at a time when there is little agreement about the concept of environment, relevant perspectives from which it should be viewed, and how to organize for its evaluation. Alternative ‘models’ for environmental analysis are examined, and theoretical issues and their administrative implications are disc

ISSN:0143-2095    

DOI:10.1002/smj.4250070404

出版商:John Wiley&Sons, Ltd.    

年代:1986

数据来源: WILEY

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AbstractThis paper starts with a survey of the received theories of vertical integration. We then extend these theories by arguing that while uncertainty in general will make integration more effective, a particular type of uncertainty, the possibility of technological obsolescence, works the other way. After making this point at a conceptual level, we build a model to study how the frequency of technological change interacts with the intensity of competition to influence the optimal level of integration. The predictions of the model are then tested and very strongly supported by data from 93 industries.

ISSN:0143-2095    

DOI:10.1002/smj.4250070405

出版商:John Wiley&Sons, Ltd.    

年代:1986

数据来源: WILEY

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AbstractThe contribution of both new and small firms towards economic recovery is now universally accepted as significant. What is still unclear, however, is the extent of that contribution, particularly with regard to the new firm. Despite this, governments at all levels, federal, state and county, have designed strategies for fostering entrepreneurial activity. With little specific knowledge of the target population, these strategies have been either general in nature or based on economic theory, and, as a consequence, little is known about whether they have been effective in affecting the natural process, and in what geographic locations.This research studied the whole population of new firms started in St. Joseph County, Indiana, between 1977 and 1982. It was concerned with both birth and death patterns, and the net jobs generated. The results confirmed the general findings of others that new firms play a significant role in job generation. Over the period, the number of jobs created by a new firm was a consistent 2.9 per cent of the total number of jobs in the industrial sectors studied. Moreover, this exceeded the 1.75 per cent of jobs lost through firms withdrawing from the labour market. Within this, activity in both firms and jobs was found to be centred in only a few SIC categories, and the results of this research suggest that simple tests of volatility and gain will help to focus strategic plans for aid on those sectors where the natural process is already generating the most new jobs.

ISSN:0143-2095    

DOI:10.1002/smj.4250070406

出版商:John Wiley&Sons, Ltd.    

年代:1986

数据来源: WILEY

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AbstractWhile previous research on the relationship between market share (MS) and business profitability (BP) has found a positive relationship, its nature (i.e. direct versus spurious), its context‐specificity, and the validity of MS as a predictor of BP have not been adequately addressed. Employing path analysis, this study examined the nature of this relationship across a taxonomy of homogeneous environments. The major findings were that (1) the association between MS and BP is context‐specific; (2) both direct and spurious relationships exist, and their relative strengths vary across environments; and (3) the validity of MS as a predictor of BP is context‐specific. Further, key firm conduct variables accounting for the spuriousness have been identified. Finally, implications of these findings for managers pursuing market share as a goal are disc

ISSN:0143-2095    

DOI:10.1002/smj.4250070407

出版商:John Wiley&Sons, Ltd.    

年代:1986

数据来源: WILEY

ISSN:0143-2095    

DOI:10.1002/smj.4250070401

出版商:John Wiley&Sons, Ltd.    

年代:1986

数据来源: WILEY