外文翻译--英国保险行业的组织结构和内部控制（节选）

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1、中文 4200 字 ,2500 单词， 14000 英文字符 出处： Hilary Ingham. Organisational Structure and Internal Control in the UK Insurance IndustryJ. Service Industries Journal, 1991, 11(4):425-438. Organisational Structure and Internal Control in the UK Insurance Industry HILARY INGHAM A significant body of literature su

2、pports the superiority of the multidivisional organisational structure for the management of a diversified enterprise. However recent research has cast doubt on the widespread existence of optimally organised multidivisional firms and has suggested that, in practice, what is observed is a hybrid typ

3、e of administrative structure. This paper focuses on the extent and nature of divisionalisation within UK insurance companies. Such companies are of particular interest for two reasons. First, changes in organisational structure have been recent and, second, the companies tend to operate in related

4、areas of business. The results herein support the notion that a hybrid structure is more prevalent since the evidence presented suggests that where divisionalisation exists it is sub-optimal Regulatory changes have radically altered the nature of financial service provision in the UK. In the wake of

5、 liberalisation many financial service companies have diversified into new areas which have tended, for the most part, to be related to their primary line of business. Recourse to the work of Channon 1973 suggests that a policy of diversification may weU render companies administrative structures ob

6、selete thus necessitating organisational change. Although much research has been conducted on the strategy structure linkage within manufacturing there is a dearth of evidence for the service industries. This paper considers the strategy structure link for one segment of the financial service industries - the insurance market. The following section considers the theoretical linkage between diversification and organisational structure. The existing empirical evidence on the hypothesised per