A Meta-Analytic Review of the Relationship between Size and Performance: The Productivity and Efficiency of Organizations and Their Subunits.
A Meta-Analytic Review of the Relationship between Size and Performance: The Productivity and Efficiency of Organizations and Their Subunits.
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规模与绩效之间关系的元分析回顾：组织及其子单位的生产力和效率。
DOI：
10.2307/2392692
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发表时间：
1985
影响因子：
10.4
通讯作者：
J. Wagner
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作者：
R. Gooding;J. Wagner
作者感谢 Lawrence W. Foster 的合作以及 Michael K. Moch 对本文早期草稿的评论。我们还要感谢副主编和 ASQ 审稿人的有益指导，以及 Sarah B. Dornbos 的辛勤协助。本文对 31 项已发表的规模与性能关系实地研究进行了荟萃分析。荟萃分析表明，子单位规模与绩效之间的关系不同于组织规模与绩效之间的关系。具体来说，子单元大小和子单元性能不显着或负相关，具体取决于用于测量子单元性能的操作化。这些结果似乎与群体行为的搭便车模型和过程损失模型适度一致。然而，与迄今为止的审查结果相比，组织规模和组织生产力（定义为以绝对（非比率）术语衡量的绩效）彼此呈正相关。此外，组织规模和组织效率（定义为以相对（产出-输入）术语衡量的绩效）彼此之间没有表现出正相关关系，这使人们对组织规模和规模经济之间是否存在正向净关系产生怀疑。*
The authors thank Lawrence W. Foster for his collaboration and Michael K. Moch for his comments on earlier drafts of this paper. We also thank the Associate Editor and ASQ reviewers for their helpful guidance, and Sarah B. Dornbos for her diligent assistance. This paper presents a meta-analysis of 31 published field studies of the size-performance relationship. The metaanalysis indicates that the relationship between subunit size and performance differs from the relationship between organizational size and performance. Specifically, subunit size and subunit perfomance are nonsignificantly or negatively related, depending on the operationalization used to measure subunit performance. These results appear to be modestly consistent with free-rider and process-loss models of group behavior. However, organizational size and organizational productivity, defined as performance measured in absolute (nonratio) terms, are positively related to each other in contrast to review findings to date. Additionally, organizational size and organizational efficiency, defined as performance measured in relative (output-input) terms, are shown to exhibit no positive relationship to each other, casting doubt on the existence of a positive net relationship between organizational size and economies of scale.*