On the Structural Dimension of Competitive Strategy

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This paper aims at establishing the existence of systematic differences in the nature of competitive strategies available to individual firms across industries. By means of qualitative content analysis, we extracted a matrix of 76 industries times 12 strategies reported as being characteristic in a series of monographs. Subsequent tests for the statistical significance of observed differences in the typical strategy portfolio show an evident link to an industry's general reliance on intangible investments, human resources, and inputs from external services.

Object Details

• Language: Englisch

References and Relationships

• Bibliographic citation: Series: WIFO Working Papers ; No. 145

Classification and Topics

• Classification: Wirtschaft
• Subject: Corporate strategy ; Industrial structure ; technological regimes ; intangible assets ; human resources ; external services ; Strategisches Management ; Wettbewerbsstrategie ; Wirtschaftsstruktur ; Industriestruktur ; Immaterielle Werte ; Humanressourcen ; Evolutionsökonomik ; Theorie

Contributors, Places and Time

• Event: Geistige Schöpfung
• (who): Kaniovski, Serguei ; Peneder, Michael
• Event: Veröffentlichung
• (who): Austrian Institute of Economic Research (WIFO)
• (where): Vienna
• (when): 2001

Further information

• Handle: http://hdl.handle.net/10419/128689
• Last update: 10.03.2025, 11:43 AM CET