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Prescriptive and descriptive perspectives on business unit structure and performance: The influence of business strategy, general manager, and external and intracorporate environments.

机译：关于业务部门结构和绩效的说明性和描述性观点：业务策略，总经理以及外部和公司内部环境的影响。

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The project of strategic management research includes the explanation and prediction of organizational performance (Hambrick, 1989). Hence it is to a large extent a prescriptive project. In particular, many researchers have advanced and empirically supported the proposition that, in the interests of economic performance, organizations should align their strategies and structures. A classic example is provided by Rumelt's (1974) study of corporations.; Rumelt's classic study is based on a prescriptive structural contingency theory. It is prescriptive, in that it includes a recommendation, or prescription, to be followed in the interests of organizational performance. It is based on contingency theory, in that the prescription is one of fit between structure and a contingency variable (corporate strategy).; However, not all theories of organizational structure are prescriptive. Others are descriptive, in that they offer explanation and prediction of what managers and organizations actually do, whether or not their actions improve organizational performance. For example, from the institutional perspective, organizations within a given field tend towards similarity, rather than towards efficiency (DiMaggio & Powell, 1983).; This dissertation adopts and tests both prescriptive and descriptive perspectives. The research described here is to a large extent a generalization (Tsang and Kwan, 1999) of prior descriptive and prescriptive research. Its distinctive contribution to these streams of research is that its unit of analysis is different from those of prior studies.; The unit of analysis of this dissertation is the business unit of the multibusiness corporation. Little prior research has taken as its unit of analysis the business unit. The paucity of research at this level is surprising in the light of the robust finding that a considerable proportion of variance in performance is due to business unit effects (Rumelt, 1991). Hence choice of this unit of analysis is consistent with strategic management's performance-oriented project.; Results from this study show positive association between the strategic variable of low cost and the structural variable of formalization. They further show a negative effect on performance associated with similarity amongst business units of the same corporation.
机译：战略管理研究项目包括组织绩效的解释和预测（Hambrick，1989）。因此，在很大程度上，这是一个规范性的项目。特别是，许多研究人员已经提出了这样的主张，并在经验上支持这一主张：为了经济绩效，组织应调整其战略和结构。 Rumelt（1974）对公司的研究提供了一个经典的例子。鲁梅尔特的经典研究基于规范性的结构权变理论。它是规范性的，因为它包括为了组织绩效而应遵循的建议或规定。它是基于权变理论的，因为处方是结构和权变变量（企业策略）之间的契合之一。但是，并非所有组织结构理论都是规定性的。其他人则是描述性的，因为他们提供了对经理和组织实际行为的解释和预测，无论他们的行为是否提高了组织绩效。例如，从制度的角度来看，给定领域内的组织倾向于趋于相似而不是效率（DiMaggio＆Powell，1983）。本文采用并检验了描述性和描述性两种观点。这里描述的研究在很大程度上是对先前描述性研究和描述性研究的概括（Tsang和Kwan，1999）。它对这些研究流的独特贡献是其分析单位不同于先前的研究。本文的分析单位是多业务公司的业务单位。先前的研究很少以业务部门为分析单元。鉴于有力的发现，业绩差异的很大一部分归因于业务部门的影响，在这一层次上的研究很少是令人惊讶的（Rumelt，1991）。因此，选择该分析单位与战略管理的绩效项目是一致的。这项研究的结果表明，低成本的战略变量与形式化的结构变量之间存在正相关。它们还显示了对同一公司业务部门之间相似性相关性能的负面影响。

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    Watson, Andrew.;

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    University of Massachusetts Amherst.;

  • 授予单位 University of Massachusetts Amherst.;
  • 学科 Business Administration Management.
  • 学位 Ph.D.
  • 年度 2001
  • 页码 156 p.
  • 总页数 156
  • 原文格式 PDF
  • 正文语种 eng
  • 中图分类 贸易经济;
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