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This Interest Group focuses on questions concerning firms and their interactions within product and factor markets over time. For example, what are the dimensions and drivers of business performance? How do businesses interact with one another and with their environment? What is the nature and effect of these interactions? What is competitive advantage? How can firms build and maintain a competitive advantage in a changing world? What role do resources and capabilities play in shaping firms and industries over time? How do groups and clusters of firms arise and what are their effects?

Articles and Resources for this IG&C

Open Call for Applicants to Join the SMS Diversity, Equity, & Inclusion Committee

Competitive Strategy and Climate Change

Sticking with old technology can be a strategic move

For Some Companies, There’s Strategy (and Success) to Sticking with Older Technology

SMJ: Research Shows How Organizations Evaluate Whether to Imitate or Differentiate When a Competitor Adopts New Technology

SMJ: New Antitrust Study Shows Reining in Big Tech Doesn’t Spur Rival Profits

SMJ Video Abstract | Who depends on why: Toward an endogenous, purpose-driven mechanism in organizations’ reference selection

Focus on Customers, not Competitors, when Responding to First-Movers

New Antitrust Study Shows Reining in Big Tech Doesn’t Spur Rival Profits

How to nurture and develop your ecosystem: Insights for ecosystem architects

Don’t Trap Your Customers

Strategic Responses to Crisis

Reflections on Hannah and Eisenhardt’s “How Firms Navigate Cooperation and Competition in Nascent Ecosystems”: Exploring Bottlenecks as a Central Concept in Innovation Ecosystem Theory

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Group Leadership Details

Francesco Castellaneta

Competitive Strategy Interest Group Chairperson
Skema Business School

Joost Rietveld

Competitive Strategy Interest Group Program Chair
University College London

Elisa Operti

Competitive Strategy Interest Group Associate Program Chair
ESSEC Business School

REPRESENTATIVES AT LARGE

Joao Albino Pimentel


University of South Carolina

Federica De Stefano


HEC Paris

Maria Roche


Harvard University

Daphné Baldassari


USC Marshall School of Business

Christine Choi


University of North Carolina

Johanna Glauber


IE University

Liang Chen

Global Rep-at-Large
Singapore Management University

APPOINTED OFFICERS

Federica De Stefano

Competitive Strategy Interest Group Engagement Officer
Saïd Business School