How Firm Resources and Behavior Impact Firm Performance: An examination of firm resources, competitive actions, and performance

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dc.contributor.advisorSmith, Kenneth Gen_US
dc.contributor.authorMajor, David Lanieren_US
dc.contributor.departmentBusiness and Management: Management & Organizationen_US
dc.contributor.publisherDigital Repository at the University of Marylanden_US
dc.contributor.publisherUniversity of Maryland (College Park, Md.)en_US
dc.date.accessioned2009-10-06T06:30:36Z
dc.date.available2009-10-06T06:30:36Z
dc.date.issued2009en_US
dc.description.abstractIn this dissertation, I considered how firm resources, actions and performance may be interrelated. I tested the notion that resources both enable and interact with firm actions to impact performance. Drawing from resource-based and actions-based theory and empirical research, testable hypotheses were developed suggesting that a firm's resources may impact performance potentially in three ways - directly, mediated by actions, and in combination with actions. I examined 1) the extent to which firm resources and actions each directly predict variation in firm performance; 2) the extent to which firm resources predict variation in intervening actions and thereby predict variation in performance; and 3) the extent to which the product of resources and actions in combination predict variation in performance. With a combined dataset of 4,337 actions, gathered through the structured-content analysis of over 16,000 published news articles, and 980 model-years of resources and performance data collected from industry and government sources, 44 foreign and domestic automakers were analyzed over a study period from 1993 to 2000. I find empirical support for key components of their relationships. The analysis shows evidence that firm resources impact performance, both through and with firm actions.en_US
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dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/1903/9622
dc.language.isoen_US
dc.subject.pqcontrolledBusiness Administration, Managementen_US
dc.subject.pquncontrolledAutomobile Industryen_US
dc.subject.pquncontrolledCompetitive Advantageen_US
dc.subject.pquncontrolledCompetitive Dynamicsen_US
dc.subject.pquncontrolledFirm Actionsen_US
dc.subject.pquncontrolledFirm Resourcesen_US
dc.subject.pquncontrolledResource-Based Viewen_US
dc.titleHow Firm Resources and Behavior Impact Firm Performance: An examination of firm resources, competitive actions, and performanceen_US
dc.typeDissertationen_US

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