Firm, strategic group, and industry influences on performance

Strategic Management Journal

Volumn 28, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 147-167

  Short, Jeremy C ^a   Ketchen Jr , David J ^b   Palmer, Timothy B ^c   Hult, G Tomas M ^d  

^a TEXAS TECH UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b AUBURN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c WESTERN MICHIGAN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Firm effects; Firm performance; Industry; Strategic groups; Variance decomposition

Indexed keywords

HIERARCHICAL SYSTEMS; INDUSTRIAL RESEARCH; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; ROBUSTNESS (CONTROL SYSTEMS); STRATEGIC PLANNING; VARIATIONAL TECHNIQUES;

FIRM EFFECTS; FIRM PERFORMANCE; LINEAR MODELING; VARIANCE DECOMPOSITION;

INDUSTRIAL MANAGEMENT;

EID: 33846464615     PISSN: 01432095     EISSN: 10970266     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/smj.574     Document Type: Article

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