Peter H. Grinyer

Strategy, Structure, Size and Bureaucracy

The same strong linkage between strategy and structure found in earlier studies using samples of large companies is found within a sample of 40 manufacturing companies in electrical engineering in ...

Strategy, Structure, the Environment, and Financial Performance in 48 United Kingdom Companies

Data from 48 large United Kingdom companies are analyzed to test 22 hypotheses relating to the linkages of strategy, structure, the environment, and financial performance. Among other results, the ...

Dimensions of Organizational Structure: A Critical Replication

In a critical replication and extension of the Astoi and National studies on the dimensions of organizational structure, a strong linkage was suggested between decentralization of operations, (but ...

The sharpbenders: Achieving a sustained improvement in performance

Abstract Improving corporate performance through a competitive advantage is central to the objective of corporate planners and strategists. Learning the lessons from companies, or competitors, who have successfully achieved a relatively superior performance is a useful starting point for the analyst. In particular, if those companies previously occupied a position of relative decline, how did they achieve such a remarkable recovery? What triggered them into change? What did senior management do to achieve marked sustained improvements? How did they continue to gain advantages? The NEDO research project ‘Sharpbenders’ seeks to answer such questions by a detailed analysis of a sample of U.K. companies.

Financial modelling for planning in the U.K.

Abstract Descriptive results of a survey of financial modelling in The Times 1000, sponsored by the Research Commitee of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of England and Wales, are reported. The issues addresed include hardware, software, applications, the identity of modellers and users, and approaches to integration of financial modelling at different hierachical levels of companies.