The impact of strategy, technology, size and business environment on the organizational form of small firms in China
Reid, Gavin and Smith, Julia and Xu, Zhibin (2020) The impact of strategy, technology, size and business environment on the organizational form of small firms in China. Asian Journal of Economics, Business and Accounting, 20 (4). pp. 15-32. ISSN 2456-639X (https://doi.org/10.9734/ajeba/2020/v20i430330)
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Abstract
Our research tests the hypothesis that the organizational form of a small firm is determined by the contingencies of environment, strategy, size and technology. It was tested on a sample of private firms in Guangdong Province, PR China, notable for its entrepreneurship. Our methodology was novel, involving detailed fieldwork with entrepreneurs for data collection, allied to rigorous econometrics for contingency analysis, using ordered probits. We found that business strategy was the most important determinant of organizational form, followed by new investment, cost leadership, focus strategy and financial aspects (e.g. cash flow, profit expectations). These findings are of interest both to academic researchers and to government bodies responsible for stimulating superior organizational forms in small businesses, like incubator units.
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Reid, Gavin, Smith, Julia ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6186-1723 and Xu, Zhibin;-
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Item type: Article ID code: 74976 Dates: DateEvent26 December 2020Published10 December 2020AcceptedSubjects: Social Sciences > Commerce Department: Strathclyde Business School > Accounting and Finance Depositing user: Pure Administrator Date deposited: 06 Jan 2021 11:54 Last modified: 05 Dec 2024 01:18 URI: https://strathprints.strath.ac.uk/id/eprint/74976