Strategy‐making and environment: The third link
- 1 July 1983
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Wiley in Strategic Management Journal
- Vol. 4 (3) , 221-235
- https://doi.org/10.1002/smj.4250040304
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.Keywords
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