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From the perspective of “fit as gestalts” proposed by Venkatraman (1989), top management styles are viewed as gestalts or non-gestalts. With the survey data from 112 Chinese firms, three gestalts and the non-gestalt pattern of top management styles are identified by cluster analysis. The predictive validity of gestalts is verified and gestalts are significantly better than non-gestalt pattern with respect to organizational innovation. However, gestalts do not show the obvious superiority in organizational performance compared with the non-gestalt pattern. Then, the “fit” relationship between top management styles and environment characteristics is discussed by ANOVA analysis and the results show gestalts are in higher environment uncertainty, heterogeneity and hostility than the non-gestalt pattern.
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Yuan, Xw., Yi, Jb. (2011). Environment Characteristics, Top Management Styles and Organizational Outcomes: A Fit Perspective. In: Wu, Y. (eds) Computing and Intelligent Systems. ICCIC 2011. Communications in Computer and Information Science, vol 233. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-24010-2_8
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