...Simone A. Schweiger Purpose Multibusiness firms face increasing pressure to act cohesively across diverse business units in complex and volatile environments. This study aims to investigate how strategic orientations and organizational structure jointly influence firm performance. It integrates...

... in firms’ tendency to explore versus exploit, such as slack resources, organizational structure, absorptive capacity, culture, organizational age and firm size (Lavie et al., 2010). However, the arguments and findings regarding the effects of organizational antecedents on exploration versus...

... preconditions of customer orientation in culture. © MCB UP Limited 2002 Corporate culture Modelling Organizational structure Customer attitudes Observed in the long term, one of the basic responsibilities and rights of the managing structures is creating company culture. Every company has...

... and possible future reforms to the UK Chamber system. Various aspects of UK, French and German Chambers are discussed, compared and contrasted in order to consider whether a move to public law status on the part of UK Chambers would be in the UK’s best interests. Chambers of commerce Organizational...

... not have universal appeal among the companies involved; for example, British Aerospace has a relatively minor role in Airbus compared with its defence aerospace business (The Daily Telegraph, 1997). Alliances Defence industry Europe Organizational structure The 1990s have, so far...

.... Implementing an effective marketing plan for Europe will for most companies demand changes in management structure, so as to profit from the new opportunities for integrated marketing communications campaigns. © MCB UP Limited 1991 Europe Organizational structure Single market Marketing...