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Rivalry, strategic groups and firm profitability

Author(s) -

Cool Karel,

Dierickx Ingemar

Publication year - 1993

Publication title -

strategic management journal

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 11.035

H-Index - 286

eISSN - 1097-0266

pISSN - 0143-2095

DOI - 10.1002/smj.4250140106

Subject(s) - rivalry , profitability index , business , industrial organization , marketing , economics , microeconomics , finance

An analysis of the U.S. pharmaceutical industry during the period 1963–82 finds that a substantial decline in industry profitability is not explained by changes in the number and size distribution of firms, in segment interdependence and in strategic distance. In contrast, declining industry profitability is strongly associated with increasing rivalry. This increasing rivalry is associated with changes in strategic group structure and a concomitant shift from within group rivalry to between group rivalry.

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