Business Definition and Performance
评估行业内业务定义差异的影响，发现业务定义与战略集团存在关联，并影响企业损益表变量和绩效水平。
This paper evaluates the impact of variations in business definition within an industry. The manner in which organizations are defined is linked to the existence of strategic groups. Data collected across strategic groups of wholesalers in the medical supply and equipment channel are used to illustrate that the nature of the firms’ business definition is related to (1) the mean level of the firms’ income statement variables and performance criteria and (2) the significance of strategic and operational variables in explaining firm performance.