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Strategic Groups

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Strategic groups provide a mid-level of analysis between industry-level analysis and firm-level analysis that can help explain strategic choices, rivalrous interactions, and firm and industry performance. Although methodological problems impeded early efforts to identify groups that were more than the sum of their individual firm parts, recent advancements on both theoretical and methodological fronts have proved more fruitful. Cognitive approaches to strategic groups as well as economic approaches centring on interactions among firms have paved the way for researchers to distinguish spurious groups from those that have effects that cannot be attributed to either firm-level or industry-level attributes.

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  1. Department of Management, Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth, 100 Tuck Hall, Hanover, NH, USA

    Margaret Peteraf

  2. UIC Business – University of Illinois at Chicago, College of Business Administration, 601 South Morgan Street, Chicago, IL, USA

    Mark Shanley

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  1. Stanford University , Stanford, California, USA

    Mie Augier

  2. Tusher Ctr Intellectual Capital, University of California Tusher Ctr Intellectual Capital, Berkeley, California, USA

    David J. Teece

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Peteraf, M., Shanley, M. (2016). Strategic Groups. In: Augier, M., Teece, D. (eds) The Palgrave Encyclopedia of Strategic Management. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-349-94848-2_274-1

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