Designing Matrix Structures to Fit MNC Strategy
研究了跨国公司如何设计不同类型的矩阵结构以匹配其复杂多维战略，基于57家德国跨国公司的数据验证了信息处理模型，并发现产品技术相似性是战略匹配中缺失的关键要素。
Matrix structures and network designs are the primary organizational alternatives available to MNCs to implement increasingly complex multidimensional strategies. Despite a growing interest in matrix structures among MNC managers, theory about how to design and fit the different types of matrix structure to MNC strategy is largely absent from the scholarly literature. To address this gap, the present study develops an information‐processing model of strategy‐structure fit for MNC matrix structures. It does this by modifying and extending logic already established for fitting elementary structures to MNC strategy. Hypotheses based on the model are empirically supported, using a sample of 57 G erman MNCs with matrix structures. Multivariate discriminant analysis further reveals that an important element of strategy—the technological similarity of products in an MNC —is still missing from the literature and proposed model.