Categories and Competition
By Gino Cattani, Joseph Porac, Howard Thomas. 2017
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In this paper, we review, integrate, and extend the literature on markets, competition, and categories as it applies to strategic management theory. Developments in the literatures of economics and organizational theory have shed new light on market categories and category dynamics. These developments highlight the fact that boundary questions are fundamental to the competitive process, and represent a fertile area for research and theory. The objective is to encourage a theoretically grounded rapprochement between current strategic management research and both older and newer research on categories and competition.
Subfields: Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management, Strategy and Management
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Citations in the corpus
- Optimal distinctiveness: Broadening the interface between institutional theory and strategic management (2017, background): “…that have emphasized how firms successfully bridge or combine elements of different categories or relate to different stakeholders and their perceptions (Cattani et al., 2016; Durand and Paolella, 2013; Gehman and Grimes, 2016; Kennedy and Fiss, 2013; Zhao, Ishihara, and Lounsbury, 2013).”
- Multiple competitions in higher education: a conceptual approach (2019, background): “…and metrics – in higher education, for example, number of students, graduates, publications, study subjects, third party funding, personnel – allows for the creation of competition and for its dynamics to unfold (for a similar argument in strategic management theory see Cattani et al., 2017).”