TY - UNPB
T1 - The Performance of Different Organisations under Different Marked Conditions
T2 - An Empirical Analysis of the Organisational Structure and Performance of 1900 Danish Firms
AU - Skov Kristensen, Frank
PY - 1997
Y1 - 1997
N2 - Among some scholars of management, organisation and also economists as well as policy
makers it is argued that certain new forms of firm organisation such as flexible and learning
organisations increasingly are becoming “best practice”, in an increasingly learning and global
economy. On a policy level, in eg. Denmark and OECD, questions are already asked as to how
policies should be set up to stimulate such organisational forms. A crucial aspect that is
recognised by some scholars, is that it is in certain competitive structures where flexible and
learning organisations are well suited, though tends to be overlooked within the debate. The
analysis in this paper applies performance data from Statistics Denmark merged with survey
data of organisational forms, management, work practices and employee skills collected through
a questionnaire in 1900 Danish firms in manufacturing as well as services. Applying regression
analyses we show that the flexible or learning organisational forms in some parts of the
economy, characterised by innovation turbulence and cumulativeness, are best performers
though not in general. We argue that a quantitative analysis as ours is vital to both avoid
idiosyncratic generalisations among scholars as well as policy makers, and to give rigid and
more detailed implications for policy regarding firm organisation, both at present and in a
dynamic setting.
AB - Among some scholars of management, organisation and also economists as well as policy
makers it is argued that certain new forms of firm organisation such as flexible and learning
organisations increasingly are becoming “best practice”, in an increasingly learning and global
economy. On a policy level, in eg. Denmark and OECD, questions are already asked as to how
policies should be set up to stimulate such organisational forms. A crucial aspect that is
recognised by some scholars, is that it is in certain competitive structures where flexible and
learning organisations are well suited, though tends to be overlooked within the debate. The
analysis in this paper applies performance data from Statistics Denmark merged with survey
data of organisational forms, management, work practices and employee skills collected through
a questionnaire in 1900 Danish firms in manufacturing as well as services. Applying regression
analyses we show that the flexible or learning organisational forms in some parts of the
economy, characterised by innovation turbulence and cumulativeness, are best performers
though not in general. We argue that a quantitative analysis as ours is vital to both avoid
idiosyncratic generalisations among scholars as well as policy makers, and to give rigid and
more detailed implications for policy regarding firm organisation, both at present and in a
dynamic setting.
M3 - Working paper
SN - 8778730325
T3 - DRUID Working Paper
BT - The Performance of Different Organisations under Different Marked Conditions
PB - DRUID - Danish Research Unit for Industrial Dynamics
CY - Frederiksberg
ER -