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Strategy-performance linkage: methodological refinements and empirical analysis

Strategy-performance linkage: methodological refinements and empirical analysis PurposeStrategic typologies are applied to investigate strategy-performance relationship. The typology of Miles and Snow (1978) is one of them but the methodology applied for identification of strategic types for archival financial data is questionable on three grounds: no standard procedure for categorization of strategic types; identification of reactor strategy is always ignored; and the behavior of firms’ strategic orientation over time is under-researched. Besides, the assumptions that viable strategies are expected to perform equally well, outperform reactors, and distributed evenly are not overwhelmingly supported. The purpose of this paper is to address these issues. Design/methodology/approachA refined scoring methodology is developed and employed for identification of all strategic types, including reactors, by investigating the consistency of the firms over time. Empirical analysis using 7 years data of 121 Joint Stock firms of textile sector in Pakistan is done to test the assumptions regarding presence, distribution, and performance of strategic types. FindingsThere is significant difference in distribution of the strategic types. Pure defenders and pure prospectors are non-existing whereas a reasonable number of reactors are present. Overall difference in performance among strategies is generally insignificant and viable strategies outperformed reactors. The effect of size on performance is also insignificant. However, there is variation in performance of strategies with variation in size. Strategy is the better predictor of performance than size.Originality/valueThe transition of strategic stance of the firms over time and the identification of reactor strategy from archived financial data are the important outcomes of the proposed methodology. The proposed methodology can be used for any longitudinal study for identification of all possible strategic types and can also be used for any other typological research. http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Journal of Asia Business Studies Emerald Publishing

Strategy-performance linkage: methodological refinements and empirical analysis

Anwar, Jamil; Hasnu, SAF
Journal of Asia Business Studies , Volume 10 (3) – Aug 1, 2016
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PurposeStrategic typologies are applied to investigate strategy-performance relationship. The typology of Miles and Snow (1978) is one of them but the methodology applied for identification of strategic types for archival financial data is questionable on three grounds: no standard procedure for categorization of strategic types; identification of reactor strategy is always ignored; and the behavior of firms’ strategic orientation over time is under-researched. Besides, the assumptions that viable strategies are expected to perform equally well, outperform reactors, and distributed evenly are not overwhelmingly supported. The purpose of this paper is to address these issues. Design/methodology/approachA refined scoring methodology is developed and employed for identification of all strategic types, including reactors, by investigating the consistency of the firms over time. Empirical analysis using 7 years data of 121 Joint Stock firms of textile sector in Pakistan is done to test the assumptions regarding presence, distribution, and performance of strategic types. FindingsThere is significant difference in distribution of the strategic types. Pure defenders and pure prospectors are non-existing whereas a reasonable number of reactors are present. Overall difference in performance among strategies is generally insignificant and viable strategies outperformed reactors. The effect of size on performance is also insignificant. However, there is variation in performance of strategies with variation in size. Strategy is the better predictor of performance than size.Originality/valueThe transition of strategic stance of the firms over time and the identification of reactor strategy from archived financial data are the important outcomes of the proposed methodology. The proposed methodology can be used for any longitudinal study for identification of all possible strategic types and can also be used for any other typological research.

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Journal of Asia Business Studies – Emerald Publishing

Published: Aug 1, 2016

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