A decision is made – and then?

Implementation of Top Management decisions is a slightly researched area in contrast to decision making (Skivington & Daft, 1991; Hickson et al., 2003). To fill a bit of this gap I carried out a field study and wrote a doctoral thesis (Göransson, 2007) where the implementation efficiency and its conditional factors were explored and, to a limited extent, explained. From the beginning the thesis was aimed to be fulfilled in three steps, but was later limited to the first two as they were enough to meet the formal doctoral requirements. These first two steps are labelled as Step I and Step II in the thesis and an important result is a developed implementation model. In this report, Step III, the results from a quantitative test of the model are presented