High and low levels of organizational adaptation: An empirical analysis of strategy, structure, and performance

Jennings, Daniel F.; Seaman, Samuel L.

doi:10.1002/smj.4250150604

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“…Traditionally, business performance has been measured in financial terms [64], using measures such as return on sales and profit per unit production [65]. However, it is return on investment (ROI) that is conventionally regarded as the preeminent financial test of success [61], [67], and the pursuit of the highest rate of ROI is a primary consideration for owners and managers [66].…”

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Exploring the Relationship between Software Process Adaptive Capability and Organisational Performance

Clarke

O’Connor

Leavy

et al. 2015

IIEEE Trans. Software Eng.

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Abstract-Software development is a complex socio-technical activity, with the result that software development organisations need to establish and maintain robust software development processes. While much debate exists regarding the effectiveness of various software development approaches, no single approach is perfectly suited to all settings and no setting is unchanging. The capability to adapt the software process is therefore essential to sustaining an optimal software process. We designed an exploratory study to concurrently examine software process adaptive capability and organisational performance in 15 software development organisations, finding that companies with greater software process adaptive capability are shown to also experience greater business success. While our exploratory study of the complex relationship between these phenomena is limited in some respects, the findings indicate that software process adaptive capability may be worthy of further integration into software process engineering techniques. Software process adaptive capability may be an important organisational strength when deriving competitive advantage, and those responsible for the creation and evolution of software process models and methodologies may want to focus some of their future efforts in this area.

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Section: Methodsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Exploring the Relationship between Software Process Adaptive Capability and Organisational Performance

Clarke

O’Connor

Leavy

et al. 2015

IIEEE Trans. Software Eng.

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“…As in previous research in this area, correlation analysis, multiple linear regression, and analysis of variance (ANOVA) were used to determine the extent to which strategy implementation was related to generic strategies, in addition to use of t-tests for tests of hypotheses (Aosa, 1992;Jennings & Seaman, 1994;Porter, 2003;Skivington & Daft, 1991;Tan & Litschert, 1994;Wright et al, 1991). The hypotheses were tested within 95 % level of confidence interval or 5 % level of significance.…”

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Comparative Analysis of Competitive Strategy Implementation

Waweru

2011

JMS

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This paper presents research findings on Competitive Strategy Implementation which compared the levels of strategy implementation achieved by different generic strategy groups, comprising firms inclined towards low cost leadership, differentiation or dual strategic advantage. The study sought to determine the preferences for use of implementation armaments and compared how such armaments related to the level of implementation achieved.Respondents comprised 71 top executives from 59 companies among the top 300 private sector firms in Kenya. SPSS software was used to conduct t-test, ANOVA, and multiple linear regression analysis, to within 95% confidence interval or 5% statistical significance. The results indicated that there was no significant difference between the levels of strategy implementation achieved by any pair set of the three strategic groups. The study revealed that the predictors of strategy implementation include the firm's capacity to overcome resistance to change, having incentives based on meeting strictly quantitative targets, adopting a win-lose competitive posture, its effectiveness in strategy implementation, and the environmental rate of change. The results also indicated that there was no significant difference between the preferences for use of either win-lose or win-win competition by any pair set of the strategic groups.

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“…Generally, the term 'performance' brings in the forefront measurements such as profit, costs, and market share (Laitinen, 2002), as firm performance has traditionally been viewed and measured in accounting terms (Jennings & Seaman, 1994). As innovativeness is a key factor for business performance (Deshpande, Farley, & Webster, 1993;Tajeddini & Trueman, 2008), it is essential to determine the antecedents of innovativeness and its impact on firm performance.…”

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The behaviour of tourism firms in the area of innovativeness

Čivre

Omerzel

2015

Economic Research-Ekonomska Istraživanja

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Innovativeness in companies in the tourism sector can reasonably be considered to be one of the most important factors of performance. This paper highlights the importance of two determinants of tourism firms' innovativeness -namely, market and entrepreneurial orientation -focusing on the tourism sector. A conceptual model was developed and empirically tested based on 91 Slovenian tourism SMEs. The results of the study reveal the positive impact of a market and entrepreneurial orientation on innovativeness, the positive relationship of innovativeness with firm performance, and the importance of antecedents of innovativeness and their impacts on performance. Thus, tourism firms should be encouraged to introduce more entrepreneurial and marketing activities to increase innovativeness, which fosters better firm performance. On this basis, a greater competitive advantage can be reached.

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High and low levels of organizational adaptation: An empirical analysis of strategy, structure, and performance

Cited by 150 publications

References 57 publications

Exploring the Relationship between Software Process Adaptive Capability and Organisational Performance

Exploring the Relationship between Software Process Adaptive Capability and Organisational Performance

Comparative Analysis of Competitive Strategy Implementation

The behaviour of tourism firms in the area of innovativeness

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