Purpose: Strategic groups research has been hampered by the poor alignment between theory and methods. This has been due in large part to the lack of significance tests for cluster analysis. Now that significance tests are available, the theoretical and methodological implications are...

The primary goal of this research is to assess the ways in which rival organizations interact. It is argued that they will generally cooperate as well as compete with each other as they attempt to manage their interdependence. A dilemma of the commons is used as a metaphor to describe the nature...