Search results for "strategic group"
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Yield Management and Airline Strategic Groups
2011
A new strategic group of companies has appeared in Europe. This group, low-cost airlines, differs markedly from the traditional flagship companies. Focusing on a dynamic approach, the study discussed in this paper was developed to determine whether companies in different strategic groups adopted different price setting methods depending on which group they belonged to. The study is based on price information recorded at 11 different time periods for 12 airlines.
Converging Analysis of the Concept of Strategic Group in the Spanish Lighting Industry
2008
Strategic group literature does not seem to offer strong enough theoretical bases to state the very existence of strategic groups and their effects on firm’s conduct and performance. The empirical validation of the existence of strategic groups has been usually done trying to contrast their predictive validity in relation to performance, obtaining conflicting evidence. Other papers have decided to contrast the convergent validity of the strategic group concept using different definitions and measures of this construct. Our work belongs to the second type of studies. It tries to make progress in the development of a theoretical model, able to state the industry features which affect the prob…
Is tourism firm competitiveness driven by different internal or external specific factors?: New empirical evidence from Spain
2015
Abstract The quest to understand the multilevel antecedents of competitiveness has led to a separation of approaches. On one side of the question are the environment theories that analyze the structural characteristics of the general and competitive environment. On the other side are the Resource Based View and its extensions that highlight firm-specific resources and capabilities as the main basis of firms' competitiveness. However, in recent years the nature of competition and shifting economic conditions have given rise to new theoretical approaches that complement the assumptions underlying both environmental and firm theories. Specifically, this study contributes by examining the regio…
Alternative Definitions of the Strategic Group and Explaining Value of Differences in Results
2010
The relationship between strategic groups and firm performance has been recurrently analysed for more than three decades. As can be confirmed by this work, the evidence found supports as well as refutes the significance of belonging to a specific strategic group in order to explain performance differences. Hence, in this work we have tried to review previous literature to provide a reasonable explanation to unevenness found in the empirical findings. This aim obliges us, firstly, to review previous literature taking into account alternative definitions of strategic group proposed by studies rooted in different theoretical traditions, strategic positioning approach, resource-based theory and…
Em direção a uma perspectiva integradora da teoria de grupos estratégicos: validade convergente e importância da definição de grupo estratégico
2011
Una revisión de la literatura sobre grupos estratégicos evidencia, en primer lugar, una diversidad significativa de perspectivas de análisis, entre las que destacan el enfoque del posicionamiento estratégico, el de recursos y capacidades y la psicología cognitiva. En segundo lugar, revela la existencia tanto de definiciones alternativas de grupo estratégico, como de conceptos en cierto modo concurrentes (grupo cognitivo, grupo competitivo, grupo de interacción competitiva). Por último, lleva a concluir a los autores que todavía no existe una base teórica suficientemente sólida que permita fundamentar el propio concepto de grupo estratégico, así como su valor predictivo de las diferencias en…