Although the strategic group and resource based perspectives are frequently presented as mutually exclusive, we argue otherwise. The resource based view informs strategic group analysis through a firm's product or service portfolio by offering a richer perspective on strategy and an additional...

chapter 1. Fundamentals of strategic management -- chapter 2. Industry competition -- chapter 3. The external environment : political-legal and economic forces -- chapter 4. The external environment : social and technological forces -- chapter 5 The organization : ethics and corporate social...

This study examines the effect that business performance has on the likelihood that top executives will pursue a strategic change in subsequent years. Poor performing businesses in the study were more likely than high performers to change strategies. Businesses which changed strategies...