Works
- Strategy, Structure, and Economic Performance, Division of Research, Harvard Business School, Boston, 1974
In Organizational Structures
Known for
Diversification strategy and performance
Ideas
Diversification categories. Large firms classified by how related their businesses are (Single, Dominant, Related, and Unrelated Business, with subcategories such as Related-Constrained), with strategy and structure related to performance; the Related-Constrained and Dominant-Constrained categories were the top performers in almost all measures. Caveat: A study of 246 firms drawn from the 500 largest of 1949, 1959, and 1969; Christensen and Montgomery (1981), not read here, reanalyzed a subsample of them against market structure. Only passages of the book were read.
Diversification and structure. Rumelt classified large United States firms by diversification strategy and related strategy and structure to performance. Caveat: Classification depends on judgment of relatedness.
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