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Business Unit Strategy, Managerial Characteristics, and Business Unit Effectiveness at Strategy Implementation.
Abstract
Data from 58 strategic business units (SBUs) reveal that greater marketing/sales experience, greater willingness to take risk, and greater tolerance for ambiguity on the part of the SBU general manager contribute to effectiveness in the case of "build " SBUs but hamper it in the case of "harvest " SBUs. Despite the widespread acceptance of strategy's role in mediating an or-ganization's interaction with its environment (Andrews, 1971; Ansoff, 1965; Chandler, 1962; Child, 1972; Miles & Snow, 1978), the scope of research on strategy "implementation " has remained quite narrow. Following Chandler (1962), the concern has been predominantly with how a firm's organizational structure and control system are, or might be, related to the degree and nature of its product and geographic diversification (Fouraker
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Metadata
- Authors
- Gupta, A. K., & Govindarajan, V.
- Venue
- Academy of Management Journal
- Publisher
- Academy of Management
- Published
- 1984-03-01
- Volume
- 27
- Issue
- 1
- Pages
- 25-41
- ISSN
- 0001-4273 (ISSN-L)
- 1948-0989
- OpenAlex
- W1966816881
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- 1,413
- References
- 1
- FWCI
- 49.46
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
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