Organizational configurations and performance: A meta-analysis

• 成果类型: Article
• 署名作者: Ketchen, DJ; Combs, JG; Russell, CJ; Shook, C; Dean, MA; Runge, J; Lohrke, FT; Naumann, SE; Haptonstahl, DE; Baker, R; Beckstein, BA; Handler, C; Honig, H; Lamoureux, S
• 署名单位: University of Mississippi; University of Oklahoma System; University of Oklahoma - Norman; Northern Illinois University; University of Southern Mississippi
• 刊物名称: ACADEMY OF MANAGEMENT JOURNAL
• ISSN/ISSBN: 0001-4273
• DOI: 10.5465/257028
• 发表日期: 1997
• 页码: 223-240
• 关键词: STRATEGIC GROUPS; INSURANCE INDUSTRY; SNOW TYPOLOGY; management; taxonomy; miles; metaanalysis; validity; fit

摘要

The link between organizational configurations and performance has become a central and somewhat controversial focus of research in the strategic management literature, We statistically aggregated results from 40 original tests of the configurations-performance relationship. In contrast to previous qualitative reviews, this meta-analysis demonstrated that an organization's performance is partially explained by its configuration. Tests of four potential moderators showed that organizations' configurations contributed more to performance explanation to the extent that studies used (1) broad definitions of configurations, (2) single-industry samples, and (3) longitudinal designs, Results highlight the need for programmatic research.