In this paper, we review, integrate, and extend the literature on markets, competition, and categories as it applies to strategic management theory. Developments in the literatures of economics and organizational theory have shed new light on market categories and category dynamics. These...

This paper examines the competitive consequences of interfirm mobility. Because the loss of key members (defined as top decision makers) to competing firms may amount to a replication of a firm's higher-order routines, we investigate the conditions under which interfirm mobility triggers...

We suggest that a systematic socio-cognitive approach to “competitive sensemaking”has been absent from theory and research on competitive strategy. We define competitivesensemaking as the social and cognitive processes that underlie how firms detect, define, andconceptualize their...