A configurational approach to Enterprise Strategy Scope: An Upper Echelons Perspective

Enterprise Strategy Scope is the range of stakeholder satisfaction realized by a firm. Using the Upper Echelons Perspective, this study takes a configurational approach in examining the correlates of Enterprise Strategy Scope by considering the environmental and organizational context as well as top management team's characteristics and firm performance. Empirical support was found for the two hypothesized types of enterprise strategy configurations. In addition, we discovered a third type of configuration which has not yet been discussed in the literature. Overall, these empirical results suggest that enterprise strategy is influenced by several contextual variables operating on multiple levels of analysis.