Pioneers and followers: Competitive tactics, environment, and firm growth

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Are we Comparing Apples with Apples or Apples with Oranges? Appropriateness of Knowledge Accumulation across Growth Studies (2009, background): “Is it appropriate to accumulate knowledge across studies that investigate absolute sales growth using a 1-year time span (e.g., Collins & Clark, 2003) with those that use a 3-year time span (e.g., Covin & Slevin, 2000)?”
Are firms with different CSR profiles equally innovative? Empirical analysis with survey data (2013, methodology): “To control for competitive intensity (Covin et al., 1999; Ozsomer et al., 1997), we included a dummy variable (NMARCONC), equal to 1 when competition in the firm’s market is very intense, and 0 otherwise.”
CSR, Innovation, and Firm Performance in Sluggish Growth Contexts: A Firm-Level Empirical Analysis (2015, background): “Another important, if controversial, driver is competitive intensity (Covin et al. 1999; Ozsomer et al. 1997).”
The downside of being ‘up’: entrepreneurs' dispositional positive affect and firm performance (2011, methodology): “This industry-controlled growth rate has been used in previous studies (Amason, Shrader, and Tompson, 2006; Covin, Slevin, and Heeley, 1999; Covin et al., 2006) and is based on sales information drawn from the Reference USA database, adjusted by growth in specifi c industries.”