Environment, Structure, and Consensus in Strategy Formulation: A Conceptual Integration

This paper suggests an integrative framework for research on consensus in strategy formulation—performance relationships. The proposed model has two components. First, a descriptive component explores the environment—consensus relationship in which the environment is conceptualized along the dimensions of munificence, complexity, and dynamism. Second, a normative component investigates the role that the match between environment, consensus, and integrating structure plays in explaining differences in organizational performance.

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