Matching Managers to Strategy: An Investigation of Perfor Mance Implications and Boundary Conditions

Anisya S. Thomas and Kannan Ramaswamy
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Anisya S. Thomas: Department of Management and International Business, College of Business Administration, Florida International University, Miami FLORIDA 33199, U.S.A.
Kannan Ramaswamy: Department of Management and International Business, College of Business Administration, Florida International University, Miami FLORIDA 33199, U.S.A.

Australian Journal of Management, 1994, vol. 19, issue 1, 73-93

Abstract: This paper explores a series of relationships between top managers, strategic direction and financial perfor Mance. Building on previous studies, it was hypothesised that: (a) firms pursuing different strategies would be led by managers with different profiles; and, (b) firms which aligned the profiles of their top managers with the requirements of their strategies would outperfor M those that did not achieve such alignment. Further the importance of the strategy-manager alignment under various environmental and organisational constraints was also investigated. The results of the empirical examination of a sample of U.S. companies from three industries suggest that matching managers to strategy is a significant component of superior perfor Mance.

Keywords: LEADERSHIP; STRATEGY; TOP MANAGERS; PERfor MANCE (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 1994
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