As a second step, the 132 manufacturing departments were categorized with respect to their values on the interdependence variable and the organizational structure variable. For each of the six dependence/structure combinations, it was then examined the extent to which the three MASs identified were used. Table 8 exhibits the observed MAS proportions and the observed frequencies and expected frequencies (inserted in parentheses)
within each context. The MASs that are expected to be significantly over-represented in each context are marked with bold numbers while MASs expected to be significantly under-represented are underlined.