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Organization Structure And Financial Market Performance: A Preliminary Test, Richard A. Bettis, Andrew Chen Jan 1985

Organization Structure And Financial Market Performance: A Preliminary Test, Richard A. Bettis, Andrew Chen

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Firms in the petroleum industry adopting a multidivisional structure arestudied to observe the impact of structural change on financial performance. The outcome did not clearly show divisional structure to be a determining factor in performance. There is some suggestion that this may have a great deal to do with the vertical integration inherent in the petroleum industry.