Electronic Resource
Springer
Journal of market-focused management
1 (1996), S. 231-247
ISSN:
1572-8846
Keywords:
centralization
;
organizational size
;
multinational companies
;
Australia
Source:
Springer Online Journal Archives 1860-2000
Topics:
Economics
Notes:
Abstract A large-scale mail survey of some 200 Australian subsidiaries of multinational organizations aimed to identify a possible relationship between organizational size-related variables and the degree of centralization enforced by the multinational in relation to marketing decision making. The findings—that size and centralization are not correlated for each marketing mix variable—enhance previous literature on this issue, whose studies combined all marketing tasks with inconsistent results. This suggests that using organizational size-related variables as means of assigning the appropriate level of decision-making autonomy to each of the traditional marketing areas is not appropriate.
Type of Medium:
Electronic Resource
URL:
http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/BF00190040
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