Assessing the Structural Change of Strategic Mobility Determinants Under Hypercompetitive Environments

José Ángel Zúñiga Vicente () and José David Vicente Lorente ()
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José David Vicente Lorente: Departamento de Administración y Economía de la Empresa Universidad de Salamanca.

No 302, Working Papers from Departament Empresa, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona

Abstract: The primary purpose of this exploratory empirical study is to examine the structural stability of a limited number of alternative explanatory factors of strategic change. On the basis of theoretical arguments and prior empirical evidence from two traditional perspectives, we propose an original empirical framework to analyse whether these potentia l explanatory factors have remained stable overtime in a highly turbulent environment. This original question is explored in a particular setting: the population of Spanish private banks. The firms of this industry have experienced a high level of strategic mobility as a consequence of fundament al changes undergone in their environmental conditions over the last two decades (mainly changes related to the new banking and financial regulation process). Our results consistently support that the effect of most explanatory factors of strategic mobility considered did not remain stable over the whole period of analysis. From this point of view, the study sheds new light on major debates and dilemmas in the field of strategy regarding why firms change their competitive patterns over time and, hence, to what extent the ‘context- dependency’ of alternative views of strategic change as their relative validation can vary over time for a given population. Methodologically, this research makes two major contributions to the study of potential determinants of strategic change. First, the definition and measurement of strategic change employing a new grouping method, the Model-based Cluster Method or MCLUST. Second, in order to asses the possible effect of determinants of strategic mobility we have controlled the non-observableheterogeneity using logistic re gression models for panel data.

Keywords: strategic mobility; dynamic analysis; structural change; hypercompetitive environments; MCLUST; ‘logit’ model with panel data. (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 48 pages
Date: 2003-02, Revised 2003-02
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Published in Working Papers at the Department of Business, February 2003 pages 1-48

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