Notes that substantive relationships between dimensions of competition and supportive manufacturing strengths have not been clearly established. Existing priorities‐based models of strategy ignore the dynamics of manufacturing capabilities. Furthermore, these models employ highly aggregated...

The demands placed on the business community from the external environment during the past decade have already become legendary. Increased government controls have taken place in almost all developed countries. Overthrow of governments has been all too frequent in LDC's. Consumerism, a moderate...

Scholars have increasingly recognized the importance of institutional owners inthe life of the firm and have sought to explain how and when these owners influencefirm-level strategies. In spite of evidence that these owners can and do affect broadstrategies, there is little empirical support for...

Privatization is defined as the sale of state-owned assets by governmental agencies to private investors (e.g., Megginson, Nash, Netter, and Poulsen, 2004; Villalonga, 2000). Research on privatization has focused on privatization techniques (e.g., share issue privatization or voucher privatization),...