The Persistence of Superior Performance at Industry and Firm Levels: Evidence from the IT Industry in Taiwan

Yi-Min Chen and Feng-Jyh Lin

Industry and Innovation, 2010, vol. 17, issue 5, 469-486

Abstract: The industrial organization economics and the resource-based view of the firm have led to disagreements over the question as to which of firm performance at the industry and firm levels has persisted longer since the 1970s. Acknowledging that the IT industry in Taiwan has become very competitive and has demonstrated outstanding performance in the world since the 1990s, this study calculates the persistence in the incremental components of the effects on profitability, and tests hypotheses that conform to the above mainstream views of relative rates of persistence. A persistence partitioning model is fitted to a new data set, and the results show that the incremental effects of firms on profitability persist longer than the incremental effects of industry. In other words, the long-term competitive advantages of IT firms in Taiwan are more predictable and sustainable in regards to firm factors than for industry influences. These findings support the predictions of the resource-based view of the firm, and provide some implications for corporate strategy.

Keywords: Persistence; profitability; IT industry; competitiveness of firms; industry structure (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2010
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