Identifying sources of heterogeneity for empirically deriving strategic types: A constrained finite-mixture structural-equation methodology

Management Science

Volumn 52, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 909-924

  DeSarbo, Wayne S ^a   Di Benedetto, C Anthony ^b   Jedidi, Kamel ^c   Song, Michael ^d,e  

^a PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b TEMPLE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c Och Spine at New York Presbyterian Hospitals   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI KANSAS CITY   (United States)

^e EINDHOVEN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Competitive strategy; Effectiveness performance; Finite mixtures; Latent class models; Strategic types; Structural equation models

Indexed keywords

COMPETITIVE STRATEGY; EFFECTIVENESS PERFORMANCE; STRATEGIC TYPES; STRUCTURAL-EQUATION MODELS;

COMPETITION; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT; MANAGEMENT SCIENCE; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PERFORMANCE; STATISTICAL METHODS;

STRATEGIC PLANNING;

EID: 33744827972     PISSN: 00251909     EISSN: 15265501     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1287/mnsc.1060.0529     Document Type: Article

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