A Meta-Analytic Review of the Relationship between Size and Performance: The Productivity and Efficiency of Organizations and Their Subunits, 1985

A meta-analysis of 31 studies in which correlational coefficients are aggregated to correct for statistical artifacts. Three steps: 1. Estimation of population mean, correlations, and variance. 2. Correction for statistical artifacts. 3. Analysis of moderating effects    This study challenges the notion that economies of size exist. The study determined that diseconomies offset previously identified benefits, thus diminishing the positive effects of growth. 

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