Asymmetric rivalry within and between strategic groups

• Autores: Francisco Mas Ruiz, Felipe Ruiz Moreno, Antonio Ladrón de Guevara Martínez
• Localización: Strategic management journal, ISSN 0143-2095, Vol. 35, Nº 3, 2014, págs. 419-439
• Idioma: inglés
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  • Our study examines asymmetric rivalry within and between strategic groups defined according to the size of their members. We hypothesize that, owing to several forms of group-level effects, including switching costs and efficiency, strategic groups comprising large firms expect to experience a large amount of retaliation from firms within their group and accommodation from the group comprising smaller firms. Small firms, on the other hand, expect to experience a small amount of retaliation from the group comprising large firms and no reaction from the other firms in their group. We estimate the effect of group-level strategic interactions on firm performance. Our analysis reveals that the rivalry behavior within and between groups is asymmetric, which supports the dominant-fringe relation between firms, as described in our hypothesis