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Alignment and Results

Published:2010-03-18 Issue:2 Volume:42 Page:160-192
ISSN:0095-3997
Container-title:Administration & Society
language:en
Short-container-title:Administration & Society

Author:

Meier Kenneth J.¹²,O’Toole Laurence J.³,Boyne George A.²,Walker Richard M.²⁴,Andrews Rhys²

Affiliation:

1. Texas A&M University, College Station

2. Cardiff University, Wales, United Kingdom

3. University of Georgia, Athens

4. University of Hong Kong, People’s Republic of China

Abstract

Theory and evidence has grown on the role of strategy in public organizations. Miles and Snow suggest that strategy’s impact on organizational success will be greatest when external and internal factors are in alignment—when, for instance, managerial prospectors in decentralized organizations operate in a turbulent environment. This study examines three of the Miles and Snow factors—strategy, structure, and the environment—with 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.

Publisher

SAGE Publications

Subject

Marketing,Public Administration,Sociology and Political Science

Link

http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf/10.1177/0095399710362717

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