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A Reconciliation of Market Competition, Decentralization, Size, and Financial Performance Results: An Extension Testing Moderating Effects

Published:1989-01 Issue:1 Volume:42 Page:67-80
ISSN:0018-7267
Container-title:Human Relations
language:en
Short-container-title:Human Relations

Author:

Moores Ken¹,Duncan Keith²

Affiliation:

1. School og Business and Law; Bond University, Gold Coast, Australia and University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand

2. Bond University, Gold Coast, Australia and University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand

Abstract

The paper reports a study conducted in New Zealand that further examines contingency propositions that have been the subject of study in India, Mexico, and Wales and for which the results remain equivocal. Specifically, the relationship between structural dimensions and financial performance are examined while acknowledging the moderating effects of market competition and firm size. Responses from senior executives of New Zealand public-listed companies along with published financial performance results indicate that under high market competition conditions a decentralized authority structure is positively related to financial performance. Under low market competition centralized authority structure and financial performance are positively related. Implications of these findings for control strategy are tendered.

Publisher

SAGE Publications

Subject

Management of Technology and Innovation,Strategy and Management,General Social Sciences,Arts and Humanities (miscellaneous)

Link

http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf/10.1177/001872678904200104

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