The primary mission of strategic management research is to explain variations in the performance of firms. As researchers have sought to explain differentials in firm performance, they have looked to the factors that underlie competitive advantage. For many years, industry structure factors were...

This longitudinal study utilized a sample of 115 independent new manufacturing ventures to empirically investigate the (1) direct (independent) effects of entry barriers on business performance, and (2) the moderating (contingent) effects of other theoretically justified variables on the...

There are a broad range of objectives and opportunities that can be lumped under the heading ofInternet Telephony, or ITel. This paper identifies a number of criteria that can be used toseparate these different ITel applications into classes, including the degree of interoperation withthe...