Relating Porter’s Configuration/Coordination Framework to Competitive Strategy and Structural Mechanisms: Analysis and Implications
基于波特（1986）的配置/协调框架，研究了77家企业的成本/差异化竞争战略与国际战略类型的关系，以及配置/协调模式与集权化、正式化、专业化等结构机制的联系，对框架的解释和应用提出了质疑和扩展。
This article examines the categorization of business strategy in global industries according to Porter’s (1986) configuration/coordination framework. In particular; the relationships between cost/differentiation-based competitive strategies and configuration/coordination-based international strategy types are evaluated. The article also examines the relationship between patterns of configuration/coordination and the structural mechanisms of centralization, formalization and specialization. By examining patterns across 77 businesses, the article raises important questions about the interpretation and application of the configuration/coordination framework in determining broad organizational responses to globalization. In particular, the relationship between competitive strategy and international strategy is re-examined and extensions to the framework are proposed.