Purpose The purpose of this paper is to test Chandler’s dictum that “unless structure follows strategy, inefficiency … results” (Chandler, 1962, p. 314) by assessing the continuing efforts to align structure with strategy in the automobile … conceptual mediation and moderation methodologies wherein the impacts of strategy on structure were mediated by their impacts on …

contingencies. Social implications - In times of global challenges, vertical integration is a strategy known to be more effective …