Organizational configurations and performance: a meta-analysis
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The link between organizational configurations and performance has become a central and somewhat controversial focus of research in the strategic management literature. We statistically aggregated results from 40 original tests of the configurations-performance relationship. In contrast to previous qualitative reviews, this meta-analysis demonstrated that an organization's performance is partially explained by its configuration. Tests of four potential moderators showed that organizations' configurations contributed more to performance explanation to the extent that studies used (1) broad definitions of configurations, (2) single-industry samples, and (3) longitudinal designs. Results highlight the need for programmatic research. (Reprinted by permission of the publisher.)
Publication Name: Academy of Management Journal
Subject: Business, general
ISSN: 0001-4273
Year: 1997
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Can capital scarcity help agency theory explain franchising? Revisiting the capital scarcity hypothesis
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The relationship between capital scarcity and franchising is examined by testing predictions based on agency theory and the capital scarcity hypothesis. Results from an analysis of 91 restaurant chains show that firms with scarce capital tend to get into franchising more than what their agency costs demand. Expansion through franchising is driven by liquid capital, return on average, price-to-earnings ratio and debt-to-equity ratio.
Publication Name: Academy of Management Journal
Subject: Business, general
ISSN: 0001-4273
Year: 1999
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Managerialist and human capital explanations for key executive pay premiums: a contingency perspective
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It was found in this study of US executive compensation packages that some executives are paid well because of their skills and others are paid well because of their control of the compensation process.
Publication Name: Academy of Management Journal
Subject: Business, general
ISSN: 0001-4273
Year: 2003
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