Reid, Gavin C; Smith, Julia A - Centre for Research into Industry, Enterprise, Finance … - 1999
(SMEs), by appeal to three theories: contingency, agency and markets vs hierarchies. To address these theories empirically … structrue of this paper is as follows. First, the three theories under examination, contingency, agency and markets vs … summary statisics. Third, the contingency theory approach is explored on the data, both taxonomically (using cluster analysis …