The impact of alternative operationalizations of industry structural elements on measures of performance for entrepreneurial manufacturing ventures
基于115家制造企业的样本，研究发现行业结构要素的操作化方式会显著影响其对企业绩效指标的作用，且不同绩效指标不可互换使用。
Using a sample of 115 manufacturing ventures, this study examined elements of industry structure which prior theory and research in the fields of industrial organization economics, strategic management, and entrepreneurship suggest are the most important structural characteristics of industries. Future researchers should carefully select the particular operationalization of industry structure as our research demonstrates that the influence of industry structural elements on measures of firm performance is strongly dependent upon the particular operationalization utilized. In addition, measures of industry structure were found to have a differential impact on alternative measures of firm performance, suggesting that different performance measures are not interchangeable proxies for one another. © 1998 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.