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Performance and Autonomy in Organizations: Determining Dominant Environmental Components

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  • Yair Aharoni

    (The Leon Graduate School of Business Administration, Tel-Aviv University)

  • Zvi Maimon

    (The Leon Graduate School of Business Administration, Tel-Aviv University)

  • Eli Segev

    (The Leon Graduate School of Business Administration, Tel-Aviv University)

Abstract

The formulation of a strategy for an organization begins with identifying the opportunities and risks in the environment. A full and permanent search--or scanning--of all environmental forces is both too costly and intractable in terms of management time. Our findings indicate that managers do not try to identify all environmental forces. Identifying the dominant components of the environment focuses scanning efforts and saves energy and costs. Furthermore, our findings clearly point out that achievement of autonomy may be advanced by organizational performance. An optimal strategy for a manager seeking to increase autonomy would be to concentrate efforts on dominant environmental components. A spillover effect will generalize this autonomy.

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  • Yair Aharoni & Zvi Maimon & Eli Segev, 1978. "Performance and Autonomy in Organizations: Determining Dominant Environmental Components," Management Science, INFORMS, vol. 24(9), pages 949-959, May.
    • Handle: RePEc:inm:ormnsc:v:24:y:1978:i:9:p:949-959
    DOI: 10.1287/mnsc.24.9.949
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    1. De Leeuw, A. C. J. & Volberda, H. W., 1996. "On the concept of flexibility: A dual control perspective," Omega, Elsevier, vol. 24(2), pages 121-139, April.
    2. Lerner, Miri & Haber, Sigal, 2001. "Performance factors of small tourism ventures: The interface of tourism, entrepreneurship and the environment," Journal of Business Venturing, Elsevier, vol. 16(1), pages 77-100, January.
    3. Daniela Cristofoli & Angelo Ditillo & Mariannunziata Liguori & Mariafrancesca Sicilia & Ileana Steccolini, 2010. "Do environmental and task characteristics matter in the control of externalized local public services?," Accounting, Auditing & Accountability Journal, Emerald Group Publishing Limited, vol. 23(3), pages 350-372, March.

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