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Management Control Systems and Hofstede

The present study anchors on 'innovators' of Miller and Roth (1994) and 'defenders' and 'prospectors' of Miles et al. (1978) strategies. The defenders and prospectors are categorized here as 'low-innovators', since they are perceived to be involved in less agg...

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Main Author: Chatterjee, Devjani
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: 2014
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100 |a Chatterjee, Devjani 
245 |a Management Control Systems and Hofstede  |c An Empirical Study of Innovators and Low Innovators / Chatt 
260 |c 2014 
300 |a 565 - 582 
520 |a The present study anchors on 'innovators' of Miller and Roth (1994) and 'defenders' and 'prospectors' of Miles et al. (1978) strategies. The defenders and prospectors are categorized here as 'low-innovators', since they are perceived to be involved in less aggressive innovation than the innovators. Four novel hypotheses addressing primary constructs, namely, interactive control system (ICS), diagnostic control system (DCS), power distance (PD) and uncertainty avoidance (UA), are explored in this study. Based on responses from companies across varied sectors, such as, IT, manufacturing and finance, companies are classified as innovators and low-innovators (defenders and prospectors). t-test is used for statistical verification of the hypotheses whereas, Levene's test and Wilk-Shapiro tests are conducted to verify the assumptions of t-test. Findings from the empirical research support that innovators use ICS whereas defenders use DCS. Innovators and prospectors have smaller PD than defenders and lastly, innovators have weaker UA than prospectors and defenders. 
650 |a Organizational Culture 
650 |a Management Control Systems 
650 |a Organizational Typology 
650 |a Innovation 
773 |a Global Business Review  |d September 
999 |c 41851  |d 41851