03-096
THE SIZE, STRUCTURE, AND PERFORMANCE OF CORPORATE HEADQUARTERS
David Young, David Collis, and Michael Goold
Corporate headquarters have not been extensively researched.
This paper reports on a survey of the structure and staffing
of over 600 corporate headquarters in Europe, USA, Japan
and Chile and explores the extent to which they are contingent
on corporate strategy (corporate portfolio, structure
and policies), ownership and regulation, and country of
origin. The results confirm that factors in each of these
areas are important determinants of the size and structure
of headquarters. The dependence of corporate performance
upon the structure and staffing of headquarters is also
explored. Although the results are capable of alternative
interpretations, they provide no support for the view
that 'lean and mean' leads to better performance.
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