Chief executive personality and corporate strategy and structure in small firms
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To investigate the relationships of CEO personality aspects (including flexibility, need for achievement, and locus of control) to organizational factors of strategies, structures, and decision-making processes, data were compiled for 97 small business firms in Quebec. The sampling method is described. The findings are discussed separately according to executive flexibility, need for achievement, and locus of control, using standardized regression coefficients and bivariate Pearson correlations. Aggregate findings are also reviewed. Despite such study limitations as the inability to draw on casual inferences, evidence of strong relationships emerged: flexibility with informal organizational structure; need for achievement with a complex bureaucratic structure; and locus of control with dynamic environments.
Publication Name: Management Science
Subject: Business, general
ISSN: 0025-1909
Year: 1986
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Stale in the saddle: CEO tenure and the match between organization and environment
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Chief executive officers' (CEO) attention to their environments was studied by surveying the CEOs of 95 small and medium-sized Canadian firms. The results indicated that long-tenured CEOs were less likely than short-tenured CEOs to match their organizations' strategy and structure to market challenges, which also hurt financial performance. There was an inverse relationship between CEO tenure and the prescribed organization-environment match, particularly under conditions of uncertainty with a concentration of ownership. There was a positive relationship between environment-strategy match and financial performance.
Publication Name: Management Science
Subject: Business, general
ISSN: 0025-1909
Year: 1991
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A longitudinal study of the corporate life cycle
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Literature on conceptual development of corporations implies that they go through five cycles: birth, growth, maturity, revival and decline. These cycles comprise three central themes of change during corporate lives: first the complexity of the administrative task grows, structures and style become more complex, innovative and conservative phases alternate. A series of histories about 36 corporations was constructed to test the hypotheses. They show that the cycle phases have their own gestalts, that they are very different from one another and that they do not need to occur in any fixed order.
Publication Name: Management Science
Subject: Business, general
ISSN: 0025-1909
Year: 1984
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