Existing strategic group studies have rarely examined ownership type as a variable to classify firms in an industry. Using Chinese firms of different ownership types, we suggest that ownership type can be a parsimonious and important variable that managers use to cognitively classify firms into...

Existing strategic group studies have rarely examined ownership type as a variable to classify firms in an industry. Using Chinese firms of different ownership types, we suggest that ownership type can be a parsimonious and important variable that managers use to cognitively classify firms into...

In this study I contend that the ownership type has a significant impact on the environment-strategy configurations amongst different firms in a transitional economy. The influence of ownership type on the environment-strategy configuration is tested, based on an analysis of surveys of 201...