Strategic categories and competition: Significant clustering for strategic groups

• Main Authors: CARROLL, Charles, THOMAS, Howard
• Format: text
• Language: English
• Published: Institutional Knowledge at Singapore Management University 2019
• Subjects: Interdependence; Strategic groups; Cluster analysis; Categories and competition; Significance tests; Structure-performance link; Strategic Management Policy
• Online Access: https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/lkcsb_research/6829; https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/context/lkcsb_research/article/7828/viewcontent/StrategicCat_Competition_JSM_2019_av.pdf
• Institution: Singapore Management University

Purpose: Strategic groups research has been hampered by the poor alignment between theory and methods. This has been due in large part to the lack of significance tests for cluster analysis. Now that significance tests are available, the theoretical and methodological implications are discussed. The...