Firm performance and aspiration levels as determinants of a firm's strategic repositioning within strategic group structures

Strategic Organization

Volumn 10, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 406-435

  Schimmer, Markus ^a   Brauer, Matthias ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ST GALLEN   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Insurance industry; strategic divergence convergence; strategic group dynamics

Indexed keywords

EID: 84869032544     PISSN: 14761270     EISSN: 1741315X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1476127012457983     Document Type: Article

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