Towards an Objective Classification Scheme for Organizational Task Environments |
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| Authors: | Abdul M. A. Rasheed John E. Prescot |
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| Affiliation: | Department of Management, College of Business Administration, University of Texas, Box 19467, Arlington, TX 76019;Katz Graduate School of Business, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA 15260 |
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| Abstract: | This study replicates, refines, cross-validates and simplifies a scheme of operationalization and measurement of environmental dimensions proposed by Dess and Beard (1984). Employing a sample of 60 industries and data over a 16-year period, this study found considerable support for the viability of the three dimensions of munificence, dynamism and complexity. The data intensive and computationally complex operationalization scheme was simplified using a discriminant analysis approach and the discriminant functions were cross-validated using an alternate data set. |
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