This paper aims at establishing the existence of systematic differences in the nature of competitive strategies available to individual firms across industries. By means of qualitative content analysis, we extracted a matrix of 76 industries times 12 strategies reported as being characteristic...

In the UK, SSAP 13 requires that firms immediately expense most of their R&D expenditures.The reported earnings of high-R&D expenditure firms are therefore likely to convey less valuerelevantinformation to investors than those of less research-intensive firms. Using a sample offirms from the...

Banks continue to dier in many ways, for instance with respect to business models,growth strategies, or nancial health. Neglecting these dierences confuses ine-ciency with heterogeneity while sub-sample estimation prohibits eciency comparisonsacross dierent samples. We use a latent class...

Strategic investors, such as corporate venture capitalists, engage in the financing of start-up firms to complement their core businesses and to facilitate the internalization of externalities. We argue that while strategic objectives make it more worthwhile for an investor to elicit high...

This paper aims at establishing the existence of systematic differences in the nature of competitive strategies available to individual firms across industries. By means of qualitative content analysis, we extracted a matrix of 76 industries times 12 strategies reported as being characteristic...

This paper, using the resource-based view of the firm as the theoretical background, is to determine whether the integration of training in the firm's business strategies increases the impact of training on the firm's competitiveness. A regression analysis of the data obtained from a survey of...

This paper investigates spatial competition and spatial interdependence in two key strategic variables in franchising: the proportion of franchised outlets (franchise proportion) and the royalty rate. Employing a simultaneous equations model and data from 353 U.S. franchise chains in 43 sectors...

The study of organization and management theory is well equipped to examine the strategic demands of a global economy. Yet, it application to strategic management is underutilized. With its primary focus on strategic behavior from a macro-structure perspective, the field seems to have overlooked...

Supermarkets are a key route to market for suppliers of food and household consumable products in South Africa. The growth, performance and strategies of the retail industry driven by JSE-listed supermarket chains therefore has important implications for suppliers and, in turn, for the...

This article provides an encyclopedic survey of the platform strategy literature and is organized around launch strategies, governance, and competition. A platform strategy is the mobilization of a networked business platform to expand into and operate in a given market. A business platform, in...