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Industrial groupings and strategic FDI
Japan and the World Economy, 2005Abstract We show that industrial ownership structures, such as keiretsu groupings in Japan, may significantly impact firms’ incentives to engage in foreign direct investment (FDI). While the previous literature has mainly focused on the cost of capital advantages enjoyed by keiretsu firms, this paper examines two relatively unexplored channels by ...
Bruce A. Blonigen +2 more
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2019
A strategic group is defined as a set of firms within an industry pursuing a similar strategy. The strategic group concept emerged with much promise over 40 years ago. Research on strategic groups over time in a broad variety of settings has sought to clarify their theoretical and empirical properties.
Briance Mascarenhas, Megan Mascarenhas
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A strategic group is defined as a set of firms within an industry pursuing a similar strategy. The strategic group concept emerged with much promise over 40 years ago. Research on strategic groups over time in a broad variety of settings has sought to clarify their theoretical and empirical properties.
Briance Mascarenhas, Megan Mascarenhas
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Strategic groups as subsets of strategic scope groups in the Belgian brewing industry
Strategic Management Journal, 1997This research report proposes a distinction between strategic scope groups and strategic groups whereby strategic groups are delineated within strategic scope groups. A strategic scope group (SSG) includes firms within an industry that define their business using a four-dimensional ‘strategic space’ consisting of buyer types, product types ...
Noël Houthoofd, Aimé Heene
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Strategic Groups and Rent Dissipation
Economic Inquiry, 2001We consider a rent‐seeking contest in which players can form strategic groups before expending their outlays. We examine the profitability of endogenous group formation and the effect of such group formation on rent dissipation. We show the following: When just one strategic group is formed in equilibrium, group formation is beneficial both to the ...
Kyung Hwan Baik, Sanghack Lee
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Competitive strategic grouping for hospitals
The TQM Journal, 2011PurposeIn this research, hospitals with varying type, size and operational characteristics are grouped into distinct strategic groups. The competitive methods emphasised by these groups are studied. Also, the extent of effective implementation of quality improvement tools is examined.
Mahmoud M. Yasin +2 more
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Strategic Qualitative Focus Group Research
International Journal of Market Research, 2000This paper addresses the urgent need for our profession to agree on and articulate the taxonomy of skills and signals of competency for those conducting qualitative market research focus groups. It argues that this is required due to five factors: groups are used for strategic advice; they are high cost; people other than market researchers are ...
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Management and Marketing of Wine Tourism Business, 2018
James A. Downing, Dan Parrish C.S.C.
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James A. Downing, Dan Parrish C.S.C.
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Export Barriers and Strategic Grouping
Journal of Global Marketing, 2007Abstract The purpose of our work is to investigate the export strategy of international business by explicitly comparing exporting firms with non-exporting ones. This task has been undertaken by having recourse to a very large sample with more than 55,000 registered Spanish enterprises from all commercial sectors.
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Strategic Groups and Significant Clustering
2019Strategic groups research has been criticized for using cluster analysis without significance testing. Instead, the structure-performance link became the litmus test for the existence of distinct strategic groups. Unfortunately, the concept of strategic groups became distorted to fit this validity test, and the findings are still equivocal. Fortunately,
Carroll, Charlie, Thomas, Howard
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Strategic Groups in Higher Education
2016Organizations in an industry following similar strategic approaches are commonly referred to as strategic groups. According to Porter (1980).
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