Efficiency, flexibility, or both? Evidence linking strategy to performance in small firms
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The study analyzes performance in small firms in relation to efficiency and flexibility strategies using size as a contributing factor to develop competing hypothesis. It was found that firms that mixed efficiency and flexibility significantly underperformed, while no differences in performance were found between firms utilizing either only efficiency strategies or only flexibility strategies.
Publication Name: Strategic Management Journal
Subject: Business
ISSN: 0143-2095
Year: 2005
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A new perspective on a fundamental debate: a multilevel approach to industry, corporate, and business unit effects
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The relative importance of industry, corporate, and business segment effects on a firm's performance and how it facilitates in the investigation of specific strategic factors within each class of effects are discussed.
Publication Name: Strategic Management Journal
Subject: Business
ISSN: 0143-2095
Year: 2006
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