国外营销论文95Miller_1986_SMJ.pdf

Strategic Management Journal, Vol. 7, 233-249 (1986) Configurations of Strategy and Structure: Towards a Synthesis DANNY MILLER Ecole des Hautes Etudes Commerciales, Montreal, Canada, and Faculty of Management, McGill University, Montreal, Canada Summary There already exists a substantial body of work dealing with the relationships between strategy anidstructure. But mnost of the studies oversimplify things by focusing mainly on diversification and divisionalization. Recent literature has derived more complex and integrated views of strategy and structure, much of it isolating common types, gestalts, or configurations. This paper suggests a new approach for examining the relationships between strategy and structure and proposes some functional linkages between several complex strategic and structural configurations. This paper examines the relationships and tries to effect a synthesis between several very common configurations of strategy and structure. First, the gaps in the traditional liter