Competition-driven repositioning

Strategic Management Journal

Volumn 35, Issue 11, 2014, Pages 1585-1604

  Wang, Richard D ^a   Shaver, J Myles ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

Author keywords

China; competitive strategy; dominant firm; natural experiment; repositioning

Indexed keywords

MANAGEMENT; PLANNING;

CHINA; COMPETITIVE STRATEGY; DOMINANT FIRM; NATURAL EXPERIMENT; REPOSITIONING;

COMPETITION;

EID: 84907922377     PISSN: 01432095     EISSN: 10970266     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/smj.2167     Document Type: Article

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