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Assessing characteristics and importance of organizational fit using Miles and Snow typology

Concept of organizational fit is used by many theorists and researchers in the field of strategic management and organization theory to emphasize the importance of relationship between complex organizational elements and their mutual influence on overall organizational performance, capability and sustainability. The question that rises is how to align organizational elements in order to achieve organizational fit, and transform their inter-relations into higher levels of organizational performance. In that sense, this paper addresses the issue of organizational fit and analysis of its presence and influence on organizational performance. By using Miles and Snow typology our goal was to capture and determine the pattern of relationships between strategy, structure, and strategy implementation processes and their influence on organizational performance. For that purpose we conducted a cross-sectional field research on a sample of 113 organizations in Croatia to gain a better understanding of organizational fit and performance relation. Our results show that importance of fit is recognized by Croatian organizations, and that higher levels of fit lead to higher performance. In other words it is necessary to have strategy, structure and strategy implementation process fit in order to achieve higher levels of organizational performance.

fit, organization, strategy, performance, Croatia

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