An investigation has been carried out that examines the relationship between an organisation's structure and the information systems that support its operations. Twenty five business units in an international bank are categorised in terms of organisational structure and information systems and close, but not perfect, association is found. New and significant findings are reported for the support of adhocratic work groups.

This paper attempts to establish the applicability of the Miles and Snow typology of strategic orientation to small, entrepreneurial organisations. It posits that congruence between strategic orientation and decision making comprehensiveness of the strategic planning process is a superior determinant of firm performance to planning alone. An empirical study in the Regional Airline industry was conducted to investigate this proposition. Results support the importance of the congruence construct in determining performance in small, entrepreneurial ventures. Keywords:

express our thanks to the participants in seminars at the University of Gallen and the European Business School in 2003 for their helpful and supportive comments. We owe gratitude to the senior management of Novartis S.A. for their encouragement and the time they took to discuss our data with them. The views expressed in this paper are solely those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect those of Novartis S.A. or any other organization. The two authors are listed in alphabetical order. They have contributed equally to the paper. Ident. no.10654 ANTECEDENTS OF CONSISTENCY BETWEEN RESOURCE ALLOCATION DECISIONS AND CORPORATE STRATEGY CONCEPT This paper investigates the antecedents of consistency between corporate strategy concept and individual resource allocation decisions in the Swiss pharmaceutical companies Ciba and Sandoz from 1989 through their merger to form Novartis in 1996. We present a model from which we derive hypotheses regarding the influence of organizational and decision-specific factors on consistency. We test these hypotheses using data on 493 resource allocation decisions, applying maximum likelihood ordered logit estimation. Results indicate that factors specific to individual