Alignment and Results:Testing the Interaction Effects of Strategy, Structure, and Environment From Miles and Snow Academic Article

abstract

• Theory and evidence has grown on the role of strategy in public organizations. Miles and Snow suggest that strategys impact on organizational success will be greatest when external and internal factors are in alignmentwhen, for instance, managerial prospectors in decentralized organizations operate in a turbulent environment. This study examines three of the Miles and Snow factorsstrategy, structure, and the environmentwith an appropriate set of statistical tests in several hundred public organizations over a 6-year period. The results suggest that at least for this set of organizations, the contingency relationships proposed by Miles and Snow do not hold.

authors

• Meier, Kenneth

published proceedings

• ADMINISTRATION & SOCIETY

author list (cited authors)

• Meier, K. J., O'Toole, L., Boyne, G. A., Walker, R. M., & Andrews, R.

citation count

• 37

complete list of authors

• Meier, Kenneth J||O'Toole, Laurence J Jr||Boyne, George A||Walker, Richard M||Andrews, Rhys

publication date

• April 2010

publisher

• SAGE Publications  Publisher

published in

• Administration and Society  Journal

keywords

• Environment
• Performance
• Strategy
• Structure

Digital Object Identifier (DOI)

• 10.1177/0095399710362717

start page

• 160

end page

• 192

volume

• 42

issue

• 2

URL

• http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0095399710362717