Open AccessCEO Locus Of Control, Strategic Planning, Differentiation, And Small Business Performance: A Test Of A Path Analytic Model
Author(s) -
Osita C. Nwachukwu
Publication year - 2011
Publication title -
journal of applied business research
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.149
H-Index - 22
eISSN - 2157-8834
pISSN - 0892-7626
DOI - 10.19030/jabr.v11i4.5842
Subject(s) - locus of control , locus (genetics) , structural equation modeling , path analysis (statistics) , path (computing) , control (management) , business , industrial organization , economics , computer science , management , psychology , mathematics , statistics , social psychology , gene , programming language , biochemistry , chemistry
This study used data from 100 small business firms to examine a path analytic model of the relationships among CEO locus of control, futurity in strategy-making, structural differentiation, and economic performance. We found that the paths from CEO locus of control to structural differentiation and structural differentiation to performance were significant. We also found that when the effects were decomposed into their indirect components, the relationship between strategic futurity and performance reached significance.