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Macau Periodical Index (澳門期刊論文索引)
- Author
- Pinto, Jose Casto; Altinsoy, Nuh; Antonio, Nelson Santos
- Title
- The organizational alignment-strategy, structure and process: An empirical study regarding the impact on the performance of military organizations
- Journal Name
- Euro Asia Journal of Management
- Pub. Info
- Dec. 2014, Vol.24, No.1/2, pp. 3-22
- Keyword
- Miles and Snow Typology (1978), Equifinality; Fit; Performance
- Abstract
- Abstract : This study focuses on the organizational alignment in terms of strategy, structure, process and their impacts on organizational performance through the utilization of Miles and Snow typology. It attempts to prove that attaining a fit between the organization and its target strategy contributes toward a better performance. Additionally, it tests the equifinality concept which expresses the idea that an organization can perform well with a variety of strategies. Based on the contribution of previous works, concerning the Miles and Snow typology and performance, this study should be seen as a replication regarding that issue, but here applied to the military industry. The study provides empirical support to the configurationally equifinality approach and fits the concept to the military environment. It also provides an alternative way to explain performance in this environment. To the best of our knowledge, no empirical studies exist where all these aspects were applied to military organizations. Paragragh Headings: 1. Introduction 1.1. Miles and Snow (1978) Typology 1.2. Adaptive cycle 1.3. Fit concept and equifinality concept 1.4. Shortfalls in the literature 2. Methodology 2.1. Population and sampling 2.2. Data collection 2.3. Hypotheses development 3. Results 3.1. Clusters 3.2. The association between Miles and Snow Archetypes and their performance level 3.3. The linkage between fit factors linked with adaptive cycle dimensions and the organizational performance 4. Conclusion and discussion Tables: 1. Number of cases in each cluster 2. Clusters membership 3. Overall performance difference among groups 4. Overall performance difference Reactor vs. Prospector 5. Overall performance difference Reactor vs. Analyzer 6. Overall performance difference Reactor vs. Defender 7. Overall performance difference among the viable types 8. Overall performance difference between fit levels 9. Overall performance difference among high fit level archetypes 10. Spearman's correlations between total fit level and overall performance