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Exploring the Relationships between Environmental Uncertainty, Business Strategy and Management Control System on Firm Performance
Exploring the Relationships between Environmental Uncertainty, Business Strategy and Management Control System on Firm Performance

Author(s): Melek Eker, Semih Eker
Subject(s): Economy, Accounting - Business Administration
Published by: Adem Anbar
Keywords: Environmental Uncertainty; Business Strategy; Management Control Systems; Financial Performance; Non-Financial Performance;

Summary/Abstract: The subject of this study is the effects of three way interaction between environmental uncertainty, business strategy and management control system on firm performance. The data from 94 Turkish manufacturing company of 500 top class company is analyzed with the SPSS. The results of multiple regression analysis indicate that higher differentiation strategy, management control system, the three-way interaction between environmental uncertainty, differentiation strategy and management control system and the three-way interaction between environmental uncertainty, differentiation strategy and interactive control system lead to higher firm performance. According to the results of t-test, the firms with high performance tend to use differentiation strategy, management control system, three-way interaction between environmental uncertainty, differentiation strategy and management control system, three-way interaction between environmental uncertainty, cost leadership strategy and management control system, three-way interaction between environmental uncertainty, differentiation strategy and interactive control system, three-way interaction between environmental uncertainty, cost leadership strategy and diagnostic control system more than ones with low performance.

  • Issue Year: 10/2019
  • Issue No: 1
  • Page Range: 115-129
  • Page Count: 15
  • Language: English