The purpose of the paper is to identify the sources of variation in firm performance. This is one of the cornerstones of strategy research, i.e. the relative importance of industry and firm level effects on firm performance. Multilevel analysis is well suited to analyze variance in performance...

The debate about the drivers of firm performance is central to the fields of strategic management and industrial organization. Much of this debate has focused on determining the relative importance of firm versus industry effects. In contrast, the measurement of the relative importance of...

Purpose of the paper. This paper investigates whether product line breadth, innovation and company size can be linked with export performance. The focus is on the relationship between export performance and firm performance, especially for family brewers in Belgium. Research method. A...