Towards an Objective Classification Scheme for Organizational Task Environments

British Journal of Management - Tập 3 Số 4 - Trang 197-206 - 1992
Abdul M. A. Rasheed1, John E. Prescot2
1Department of Management, College of Business Administration, University of Texas, Box 19467, Arlington, TX 76019
2Katz Graduate School of Business, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA 15260

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SUMMARYThis study replicates, refines, cross‐validates and simplifies a scheme of operationalization and measurement of environmental dimensions proposed by Dess and Beard (1984). Employing a sample of 60 industries and data over a 16‐year period, this study found considerable support for the viability of the three dimensions of munificence, dynamism and complexity. The data intensive and computationally complex operationalization scheme was simplified using a discriminant analysis approach and the discriminant functions were cross‐validated using an alternate data set.

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