Heterogeneity Within an Industry: Firm Conduct in the U.S. Brewing Industry, 1952-71

Hatten, Kenneth J.; Schendel, Dan

doi:10.2307/2097932

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“…Advocates of the strategic group concept argue that industry members can be classified into groups along key characteristics, such as strategy and structure (e.g., Hatten & Schendel, 1977). In general, firms within an industry that follow a similar approach or strategy have been termed strategic groups (Porter, 1980), and strategic groups have been found to differ in performance (Ketchen, Thomas, & Snow, 1993).…”

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Strategic group identification using evolutionary computation

Torres¹,

Toral²

2010

Expert Systems with Applications

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a b s t r a c tThis paper proposes to identify strategic groups among franchisors from a big set of franchisor variables. Genetic evolutionary computation was used to reduce a set of variables efficiently, and factor analysis was used to make up the strategic groups. Franchise 500 was used as database. The results suggest both that the general map of franchisor has changed since Carney and Gedajlovic's study, and that genetic evolutionary computation is a valid way to extract knowledge from a huge set of data. This paper proposes useful information for those retail firms considering internationalization via franchising. The originality of this paper is in the use of Genetic Algorithm to discriminate the final set of variables to be used for the identification of strategic groups instead of evaluating one by one the adequacy of each variable theoretically. The ability of evolutionary computation to create new knowledge is good to produce new insights into this topic.

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Section: Introductionmentioning

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Strategic group identification using evolutionary computation

Torres¹,

Toral²

2010

Expert Systems with Applications

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“…strategic groups literature (e.g., Hatten and Schendel, 1977), an industry has several optimal points, one for each group. The appropriate grouping of firms to explain their performance might reflect the commonality of their strategies (McGee and Thomas, 1986) or the commonality of their resources (Mehra 1994).…”

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Robust Imitation Strategies

Sudharshan¹,

Furrer

Arakoni³

2015

SSRN Journal

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“…One stream begins with the industry as the basic unit of analysis and then disaggregates the industry into component strategic groups (Oster, 1982;Porter, 1980). The second stream takes the firm as the basic unit of analysis and aggregates firms into strategic groups (Hatten & Schendel, 1977;Rumelt, 1984Rumelt, , 1991. The strategic groups literature has focused on three interrelated questions: How do strategic groups emerge?…”

Section: Economic Origins Of Contemporary Strategic Managementmentioning

confidence: 99%