Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/128689 
Year of Publication: 
2001
Series/Report no.: 
WIFO Working Papers No. 145
Publisher: 
Austrian Institute of Economic Research (WIFO), Vienna
Abstract: 
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.
Subjects: 
Corporate strategy
Industrial structure
technological regimes
intangible assets
human resources
external services
JEL: 
L1
L6
O3
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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