Varieties of competitive parity

Strategic Management Journal

Volumn 24, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 61-86

  Powell, Thomas C ^a  

^a Australian Graduate School of Management   (Australia)

Author keywords

Competitive dominance; Competitive parity; Performance; Strategy

Indexed keywords

COMPETITION; COMPUTER SIMULATION; COST ACCOUNTING; COST BENEFIT ANALYSIS; HEURISTIC METHODS; INDUSTRIAL MANAGEMENT; INVESTMENTS; PARETO PRINCIPLE; PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTIONS; STATISTICAL METHODS;

COMPETITIVE DOMINANCE; COMPETITIVE PARITY; EMPIRICAL DISTRIBUTIONS; NULL MODELS; PARETO PARITY; PROFIT RATES; SHAREHOLDER RETURNS;

STRATEGIC PLANNING;

EID: 0037228537     PISSN: 01432095     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/smj.283     Document Type: Article

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