Strategy‐making and environment: The third link

Strategic Management Journal - Tập 4 Số 3 - Trang 221-235 - 1983
Danny Miller1, Peter H. Friesen2
1Ecole des Hautes Etudes Commerciales and Faculty of Management, McGill University, Montreal, Canada
2Faculty of Management, McGill University, Montréal, Canada

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Abstract

Whereas much is known about the relationships between strategy and structure, and between environment and structure, too little is known about a third link—the relationship between strategy‐making and environment. An empirical study was conducted upon two distinct samples of firms. We hypothesized that increases in environmental dynamism, hostility and heterogeneity should be related to specific changes in the amount of analysis and innovation which characterizes strategy‐making activity. Most of these relationships tended to be much stronger in successful than in unsuccessful samples of firms.

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