Research findings have established a relationship between organizational size and a
substantial set of organizational outcomes, resulting in size's distinction as “perhaps the …

This paper presents a meta-analysis of 31 published field studies of the size-performance
relationship. The meta-analysis indicates that the relationship between subunit size and …

Based on previous empirical research, size is perhaps the most powerful explanatory
organizational covariate in strategic analysis. We suggest that theoretical arguments about …

The resource-based view of the firm has become dominant within the field of strategic
management, yet it has had surprisingly little influence within organization theory. In this …

We examine the literature addressing the empirical relationships, if any, between
organization structure and performance, and draw distinctions between “hard” and “soft” …

T HE measurement of firm size plays a crucial role in applied microeconomics and industrial
organization. Firm size has figured prominently in numerous studies of economies of scale …

Although the management literature contains an impressive volume of studies attempting to
identify factors that precipitate organizational growth, fragmented theory has developed …

Building on previous demonstrations of a linkage between organizational size and
individual outcomes, this paper employs a matched employer-employee data set to …

This paper reexamines the determinants of firm performance and, in particular, the role that
firm size plays in profitability. A fixed‐effects dynamic panel data model for over 7,000 US …

This book synthesizes the existing quantitative evidence on organizational design, bringing
together the growing stream of theoretical work on the economics of firms' organization and …