Marketing theory suggests that this is also true of fit
between marketing organization characteristics and strategic
type. For example, the literature indicates that the marketing
activities needed to implement each strategic type are different
and that successfully accomplishing these marketing
activities requires marketing organizations with different configurations
of structural and task characteristics (e.g., Matsuno
and Mentzer 2000; McKee, Varadarajan, and Pride
1989; Walker and Ruekert 1987).