Environment Strategy Coalignment (Classic Reprint): An Empirical Test of Its Performance Implications: An Empirical Test of Its Performance Implications (Classic Reprint) - Tapa blanda

Venkatraman, N.

 
9781332259663: Environment Strategy Coalignment (Classic Reprint): An Empirical Test of Its Performance Implications: An Empirical Test of Its Performance Implications (Classic Reprint)

Sinopsis

This book puts forth a theory on organizational performance, suggesting that businesses that align their strategies with their environments are more likely to succeed. The author develops and utilizes a holistic perspective to demonstrate the performance impacts of environment strategy coalignment and shows how this perspective is distinct from previous reductionist approaches. The book also provides evidence of the theory's validity and robustness through empirical tests conducted across two different time periods and eight distinct environments. The findings are significant as they provide strong support for the proposition that businesses that align their strategic resource deployments to the specific requirements of their environmental context achieve higher levels of performance.

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Excerpt from Environment Strategy Coalignment: An Empirical Test of Its Performance Implications

The general requirement of coalignment between environment and strategy is understood implicitly (andrews, 1980; Bourgeois, 1980; Porter, 1980; Scherer, 1980; Miles and Snow, 1978; Snow and Miles, 1983) rather than in explicit functional forms. Thus, theoreticians postulate environment-strategy relationships using phrases such as: 'matched with,' 'contingent upon,' and 'congruent with' or more simply, 'aligned, fit' and 'congruence,' without necessarily providing precise guidelines for translating such statements into the operau'onal domain of empirical research and statistical tests. Consequently, strategy researchers perforrnin g empirical tests of the impact of environment-strategy coalignment choose an available (often convenient) functional form and perform statistical tests without examining the validity of the underlying assumptions. Since different conceptualizations imply different theoretical meanings and require the use of specific statistical testing schemes, a general lack of correspondence between the conceptualization of coalignment and its empirical tests is a serious weakness in strategy research (venkatraman.

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Excerpt from Environment Strategy Coalignment: An Empirical Test of Its Performance Implications

The positive performance impact of a coalignment between a business environment and its strategy is an important theoretical proposition in strategic management. In spite of its importance and intuitive appeal, the extent of empirical support is equivocal and riddled with problems of conceptualizing and testing for coalignment. This paper evaluates alternate approaches to testing such a proposition and argues in favor of specifying coalignment as profile deviation, which states that coalignment is the degree to which strategic resource deployments adhere to an ideal profile for a given environment. Subsequently, this proposition is tested across two time periods, and eight distinct environments in two different samples drawn from the PIMS database. Results, which were generally robust across the two periods, strongly support the proposition of a positive performance impact of environmentstrategy coalignment. Implications and research directions are developed.

About the Publisher

Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com

This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

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