This article explores the impact of foreign competition on domestic industry performance. The population ecology perspective borrowed from biology is used for this purpose. Basic concepts are introduced and modified to capture essential market characteristics. The market niche resource is...

This article explores how the strategic team perceives the strategy and strategy changes of their own company and its competitors. Findings from a case study covering both a period of "boom" and a period of "bust" demonstrated that the managers in the strategic team differed greatly in...

Effective co-ordination of business-to-business relationships is an important determinant of firms' competitiveness under changing market conditions. Drawing on transaction cost analysis (TCA) and resource-dependence theory (RDT), the authors analyse the effects of inter-firm dependence and...