STRATEGY, CONTEXTUAL FACTORS, AND PERFORMANCE Academic Article

abstract

• Relationships between multiple contextual factors and performance in 185 large industrial firms were examined. Medium size, external acquisitive growth grand strategy, unit and small batch predominant production system, consumer nondurable goods industry, and high perceived environmental uncertainty were positive predictors of firm performance. Functional structure, geographic divisional structure, and large batch and mass predominant production systems were negative predictors. The highest performers were mnedium-sized firms, those using unit and small batch as the predominant production system and those employing an external acquisitive growth grand strategy.

authors

• Ireland, Robert

published proceedings

• HUMAN RELATIONS

author list (cited authors)

• HITT, M. A., & IRELAND, R. D.

citation count

• 21

complete list of authors

• HITT, MA||IRELAND, RD

publication date

• August 1985

publisher

• SAGE Publications  Publisher

published in

• Human Relations  Journal

keywords

• 35 Commerce, Management, Tourism And Services
• 3507 Strategy, Management And Organisational Behaviour

Digital Object Identifier (DOI)

• 10.1177/001872678503800807

start page

• 793

end page

• 812

volume

• 38

issue

• 8

URL

• http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/001872678503800807