Rank friction: An ordinal approach to persistent profitability

Strategic Management Journal

Volumn 31, Issue 11, 2010, Pages 1244-1255

  Powell, Thomas C ^a,b   Reinhardt, Ingo ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF COLOGNE   (Germany)

Author keywords

competition; ordinal; performance; persistent profitability; ranks

Indexed keywords

DEGREE OF STABILITY; EMPIRICAL STUDIES; NON-PARAMETRIC; NUMERICAL INDEX; ORDINAL; PERFORMANCE; PERFORMANCE DISTRIBUTION; PERSISTENT PROFITABILITY; RANKS; STRATEGIC MANAGEMENT;

COMPETITION; FRICTION;

PROFITABILITY;

EID: 78249232615     PISSN: 01432095     EISSN: 10970266     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/smj.871     Document Type: Article

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