Strategy and structure: Expansion strategy patterns and organizational (re)structuring in large industrial diversified firms - Softcover

Schwamberg, Jonatan

Softcover

ISBN 10: 3848417391 ISBN 13: 9783848417391

Publisher: LAP LAMBERT Academic Publishing, 2012

Synopsis

The goal of this thesis is to investigate if Alfred D. Chandler’s findings regarding expansion strategy patterns and organizational structure, in the book Strategy and Structure: Chapters in the History of the American Industrial Enterprise also are applicable to large Swedish firms. In particular, the thesis investigates if Swedish firms have followed the same expansion strategy pattern and if the time between Chandler’s investigation 1962 and 2011 has changed the way firms structure their organizations given a certain strategy. This is investigated through looking at the historical expansion patterns of four Swedish, large, industrial and diversified firms and how their present organizational structures looks like. There are two main findings. First, the investigated firms expansion strategies doesn’t follow Chandler’s suggested pattern in terms of which strategies that are used or the order in which they are implemented. Second, all the investigated firms were structured by the multidivisional organization suggested by Chandler, but they differed in their definition of divisions.

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About the Author

Jonatan holds a Master of Science degree from Stockholm School of Economics, in Economics and Business with a major in Marketing. He is currently the CEO and founder of Buildor AB, and has parallell to SSE a background in project management, international marketing and banking.

Edition details

• Publisher: LAP LAMBERT Academic Publishing
• Publication date: 2012
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 3848417391
• ISBN 13: 9783848417391
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 64