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Showing 1 to 19 of 19 for “"strategic groups"”.
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Patterns of intra-industry competition: A dynamic analysis of theoretical foundations of strategic groups
Strategic group research has progressed over the last two decades to the point where the creation of intra-industry groupings is no longer a significant contribution to management in and of itself. The research to date has not, however addressed questions of why these structures emerge in the first …
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Dynamic Aspects of Strategic Groups and Competitive Strategy: Concepts and Empirical Examination in the Insurance Industry
Since Hunt (1972) coined the term "strategic groups" in his study on the home appliance industry, a growing body of literature, both theoretical and empirical, has used this concept in different ways for different purposes. The fundamental goal of this study is to explore how the concept of …
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A dynamic perspective of strategic groups and performance: a longitudinal study of the U.S. computer equipment industry, 1975-1989
… developments in industrial organization and strategic management have conceptualized an industry as being composed of finer groups of firms. The cluster of firms with similar strategic behavior is called the "strategic groups". This concept has important implications for strategy researchers …
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An empirical analysis of the strategic group concept within the UK construction industry
Strategic group theory has become a popular tool for analysing the competitive structures of industries. A 'strategic group ' is a group of firms in an industry following the same or a similar strategy along strategic dimensions. Since its initial development in the early 1970s by Hunt, the concept …
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Integration of Strategy and Economics: Triangulating on Agribusiness Competitiveness Through Strategy and Economic Theories
… as the basis to develop theoretically grounded strategic groups is a possibility. This efficiency group development can be classified as a ""deductive"" or a posteori approach, since there is no conceptual definition of efficiency groups in strategic groups literature. On the other hand, …
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Audit Pricing and Strategic Group Analysis in the Public Accounting Industry
… from 1997 to 2011 to examine the industry's strategic groups and pricing decisions in light of considerable economic forces in a changing environment. I draw upon the theory of strategic groups (Hunt 1972; Caves and Porter 1977; Porter 1980) to distinctly identify strategic groups within the …
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Performance variations among strategic group members in the pharmaceutical industry : an examination of individual sustainable growth capabilities, 1995-1997
The relationship between strategic group membership and firm profitability has been a central and controversial theme in the strategic management literature. The theoretical foundation for a direct link between strategic group membership and firm profitability has been the notion of mobility …
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Business-level competitive strategy in the United States hardwood lumber industry
… through quantitative identification of strategic groups in a sample consisting of the 100 largest U.S. hardwood lumber producers. Factor and cluster analyses were used to define strategic groups along the dimensions of cost leadership, focus, and differentiation. Five strategic groups …
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Competitive positioning strategies for Malaysian wooden furniture businesses
… research is concerned with the applications of strategic management concepts and practices by Malaysian wooden furniture businesses in managing linkages in the value web and formulating competitive positioning strategies. For the purpose of the study, interviews were held with managers of the …
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Strategy, environmental scanning, and their effect upon performance: an exploratory study of the food service industry
… scanning to performance. Porter’s (1980) strategic typology was utilized to classify foodservice firms by strategic orientation; and, an analysis of variance was performed to determine the differences in their performance. Environmental scanning engaged in by the firms was measured …
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Antecedents of Competitive Advantage and Position: A Marketer's View of the Hospital Industry
… functional strategies using the concept of strategic groups to identify competitive position, in the hospital industry.
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Profitability determination in the United Kingdom brewing industry
… the belief that an industry study should look at groups of firms within industries rather than aggregated data across industries. (Hatten and Schendel 1977. Porter 1980 and Woo 198*1) The study looks at the effect on profitability of nine independent variables paying special attention to the …
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Exploring strategic role of IT from the perspective of Ansoff's and Porter's generic strategies
… an exploratory research in the area of strategic alignment of information systems. It examines the concept of strategic alignment from the perspective of Porter's generic strategies and Ansoff's strategic grid. Porter's generic strategies were found to exist in the form of principal …
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Competitive strategy and structure in the United States wood household furniture industry
… furniture industry. Firms were categorized into strategic groups using hierarchical agglomerate cluster analysis based on factor scores. Cluster analysis resulted in a differentiation, an overall low cost, and a focus group (which appeared as a sub-group of the differentiation group). No …
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The relationship between geographic proximity and strategic posture: a longitudinal study of the U.S. fiberoptics industry
… costs economics, economic geography, and strategic management. Specifically, tests are conducted to determine whether there is an association between establishments' geographic locations and the incidence of two collective strategies: strategic isomorphism and strategic complementarity. …
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Irrigationalism – the politics and ideology of irrigation development in the Nam Songkhram Basin, Northeast Thailand
… suggests that a number of powerful actor groups in society, including hydraulic bureaucracies, the military, the private sector, national politicians and the monarchy, form alliances or “strategic groups” that compete to control the process of irrigation development at multiple scales and …
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AN INVESTIGATION INTO THE FACTORS DETERMINING RUMINANT LIVESTOCK DISTRIBUTION IN THE FAR SOUTH WEST
… models using a number of derived latent strategic variables, distilling marketing and business orientations, were used in an adapted multivariate approach. Group profiling confirmed consistency with the cluster profiles. Results show that both lowland beef and sheep producers can be …
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An examination of the relationship between financial slack and organizational strategy: a study in two industries
… utilized to divide the sample firms into five strategic groups. These five empirically derived strategy types clearly related to Glueck’s (1980) conceptual typology of corporate level strategy. This was the first study to offer empirical support for Glueck’s widely cited typology.
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The Effect of Strategic Orientation and Adaptability on Organizational Behaviors and Performance: The Case of Electronic Commerce in the Hosiery Industry
… adoption of Electronic Commerce. The use of the Strategic Orientation of Business Enterprises (STROBE) construct (Venkatraman, 1989a) and a rigorous development of an adaptability index are important components of this research. The STROBE construct has been used only twice before for comparative …