LITERATURE STUDIES ON STRATEGY AND STRUCTURE FIT ABSTRACT

In the literature of strategic management, it has been argued that the positive interaction between the organizational structure and the strategies and the existence of harmony will positively contribute to the performance of the company and its realization. In our study, the discussions about the strategy-structure alignment with domestic and foreign literature search were compiled. Especially after the 1980s it has been found that the strategic management has developed as an independent field and the increase in the studies carried out in parallel with the foreign literature in our country has been found. It is aimed to bring together the studies that show that there is a very strong dependency and interaction between the business structure and the strategies in the local and foreign literature and to present the present discussions by making selective citations from the existing studies. In the literature, the researches and researchers carried out up to now on the topic of strategy-structure adaptation and interaction are put forward in the conceptual framework. As a result of the literature review, it was seen that the opinions about the effect of the strategy on the structure were more prevalent. Especially in recent years, it has been determined that there is a mutual interaction on strategy and structure, and it is found that the researches that are made more weighted and increase in the research done