Strategy and structure

Language: English

Published by LAP LAMBERT Academic Publishing Feb 2012, 2012

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This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -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. 64 pp. Englisch.…

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Title
Strategy and structure
Author
Jonatan Schwamberg
Publisher
LAP LAMBERT Academic Publishing Feb 2012
Publication year
2012
Condition
Neu
Binding
Taschenbuch
Language
English
ISBN 10
3848417391
ISBN 13
9783848417391
Item weight
113 grams
Dimensions
220x150x4 mm

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