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- Title
Competitive and Performance Implications of Business Definitions.
- Authors
Houthoofd, Noël
- Abstract
The article discusses on how firms determine their business domain and the performance implications of implicit or explicit choice. A section on the paper elaborates on the concepts of business domain and business definition. Aside from a summary of the study conducted in the Belgian electrical wholesale sector, the analytical framework and research results and its conclusion are also provided. Meanwhile, the study is written mainly from the viewpoint of a single business unit within a multi-business company.
- Subjects
BELGIUM; BUSINESS enterprises; MANAGEMENT; BUSINESS planning; WHOLESALE trade; BUSINESS cycles; DISTRIBUTORS (Commerce); COMMERCE; SMALL business
- Publication
SAM Advanced Management Journal (07497075), 2006, Vol 71, Issue 3, p45
- ISSN
0749-7075
- Publication type
Article