A Communication-Information Model of Competitive Response Timing

1991 ◽  
Vol 17 (1) ◽  
pp. 5-23 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ken G. Smith ◽  
Curtis M. Grimm
Keyword(s):  
Information Theory ◽  
Information Model ◽  
Competitive Environment ◽  
Competitive Response ◽  
Response Timing ◽  
Competitive Actions ◽  
Scholarly Attention ◽  
Interfirm Rivalry

Although issues of timing in interfirm rivalry are critical to strategic managers, rarely have they received scholarly attention. A model of competitive response timing is here proposed that contains three basic elements: competitive actions, responses, and response timing. The article discusses howfirms enhance performance by undertaking actions and responses; the speed with which one firm responds to another s action is explained by communication-information theory. Specifically, the speed with which afirm responds to a competitor's action is posited to be afunction of (a) characteristics of the actot; (b) characteristics of the action, (c) how the action is communicated, (d) the competitive environment, and (e) the characteristics of the potential respondingfirm. Hypotheses regarding the determinants of competitive response timing are developedfrom communication-information theory.

Dante as a Florentine lyrical author

2021 ◽  
pp. 001458582110226
Author(s):  
Giuseppe Indizio
Keyword(s):  
Natural Selection ◽  
Dante Alighieri ◽  
Lyric Poetry ◽  
Medieval Literature ◽  
Source Material ◽  
Competitive Environment ◽  
Upper Class ◽  
Highly Educated ◽  
Ancient Source ◽  
Scholarly Attention

As one of the outstanding authors of medieval literature, Dante Alighieri has enjoyed seven centuries of close scholarly attention. 1 The immense success of his  Comedy has prompted some modern Dante scholars to assume that such success came easily during his life, even though the  Comedy was fully issued only after the poet’s death. Similar claims for rapid success are also made for the  Vita nuova and some of Dante’s lyric poetry. However, although much ancient source material has been lost, the surviving evidence does not support the view that success came to Dante during his life. Close scrutiny of the manuscript sources suggests a quite different scenario: Dante as an author had to survive in a dynamic and ruthlessly competitive environment (which, by analogy with the theory of natural selection, may have helped to elicit his finest achievements). His goal was to persuade the highly educated and affluent Florentine upper class to abandon its attachment to the prevailing lyrical school, represented by the authoritative and apparently indomitable Guittone d’Arezzo and his followers. Only then would Dante and the new poets (the  Stilnovisti) stand a chance of seeing their work collected in the prestigious and expensive  canzonieri. Probably, on the evidence of the surviving collections and other manuscripts (Escorialense, Laur. Martelli 12, etc), Dante did not fully achieve his goal — a situation which changed, dramatically, only after the  Comedy was published.

The Competitive Implications of Relevant-Set/Response Analysis

1989 ◽  
Vol 26 (4) ◽  
pp. 391-405 ◽  
Author(s):  
John R. Hauser ◽  
Birger Wernerfelt
Keyword(s):  
Consumer Choice ◽  
Response Analysis ◽  
Competitive Response ◽  
Explicit Consideration ◽  
Competitive Actions

Consumers choose from a relevant set of brands. Advertising encourages consumers to consider a brand as relevant. Price and other variables influence consumer choice among relevant brands. The authors examine how the explicit consideration of competitive response affects managerial recommendations and explore the interaction between price and advertising decisions. They consider cases in which managers do and in which they do not anticipate competitive actions.

scholarly journals Competitive Dynamics in Micro: Analysis of Perception About Competition in Unitomo Street Food Business

2017 ◽  
Vol 7 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Bambang Raditya Purnomo
Keyword(s):  
Information Processing ◽  
Phenomenological Approach ◽  
Original Data ◽  
Qualitative Approach ◽  
Competitive Dynamics ◽  
Competitive Environment ◽  
Structural Interpretation ◽  
Competitive Actions ◽  
Micro Analysis ◽  
Information Processing Approach

The purpose of the study this is to explore small and micro businesses in their connections with competitors and the competitive force in the market.  This study uses the information processing approach to examine three activities, scanning the competitive environment, the interpretation of competitive actions, and reactions based on that assessment.  This research is motivated by the lack of competitiveness of micro businesses, especially those engaged in the culinary field.  This study uses qualitative approach with phenomenological methods, in which  researchers try to explain or reveal the meaning of a concept or phenomenon of experience based on the awareness that occurs in some individuals.  In this study, researchers collect, summarize and interpret the data obtained, which is then processed back in order to obtain a clear, directed and thorough pictures of the problem which become the object of research.  Phenomenological approach is used to analyze the original data collected from interview with the informant. Structural interpretation of the experience described by researchers in the description of the participants.

Sleeping with the enemy

2019 ◽  
Vol 57 (1) ◽  
pp. 211-228 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ming-Chang Huang ◽  
Bau-Jung Chang
Keyword(s):  
Collective Identity ◽  
Moderating Effects ◽  
Competitive Response ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Cooperation Level ◽  
Competitive Action ◽  
Negative Effect ◽  
New Perspective ◽  
Competitive Actions ◽  
Practical Implications

Purpose This paper highlights cooperation as an important moderating condition of competitive action and response. Drawing on a new perspective of collective identity on competitive dynamics, the purpose of this paper is to stress the impacts of market commonalities and resource similarities on competitive actions and responses and focus on the moderating effect of cooperation on the relationships mentioned above. Design/methodology/approach This study employs logistic regression analysis to test the hypotheses in the Taiwanese flour industry at the period 2002–2005. Findings The results indicate market commonalities and resource similarities have a negative effect on the likelihood of a price-competitive action and a price-competitive response. Moreover, the level of cooperation among firms moderates the relationships among market commonalities, resource similarities, price-competitive actions, and price-competitive responses. Practical implications To understand and predict competitive behavior help firms to control and avoid unnecessary rivalry and therefore maintain mutual forbearance with competitors. Originality/value This study provides a new angle on cooperation-level analysis, contributing the use of collective identity theory to analyze the moderating effects of cooperation on competitive actions and responses.

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