This study has a dual thrust. "Substantively", it revisits Chandler's pragmatic fit-performance directive (Chandler's 'efficiency thesis') or his assertion that firms whose structure matches their strategy become more effective than mismatched firms. It is important to revisit the empirical...

This study revisits Chandler's seminal work <italic>Strategy and Structure</italic> (1962) empirically. This work helped fashion the notion of strategic fit as well as the need for new organisational forms. Chandler's fit-performance thesis proposes that firms which match structure to their strategy will become...