Type of Document	Dissertation
Author	Lux, Sean
Author's Email Address	slux@coba.usf.edu
URN	etd-04142008-161552
Title	Nonmarket Effects on Strategic Fit: An Economic Institutional Change Perspective
Degree	Doctor of Philosophy
Department	Management, Department of
Advisory Committee	Advisor Name Title Bruce T. Lamont Committee Chair Annette L. Ranft Committee Member Gerald R. Ferris Committee Member Michael D. Hartline Committee Member
Keywords	Strategic Fit Corporate Political Activity Nonmarket Strategy Economic Institutional Change
Date of Defense	2008-02-08
Availability	unrestricted
Abstract How do market and nonmarket environmental factors affect firm investment decisions and subsequent performance? Economic Institutional Change Theory is extended to the product market-firm level of analysis to develop a model of dynamic strategic fit to nonmarket and market factors. The co-evolution of market and institutional factors creates four basic opportunity sets comprised of low to high market opportunities and low to high political opportunities. Contingency models are estimated using generalized least squares regression for three of the four opportunity sets. Deviation from the contingency models is used to measure strategic fit and used to test the relationship between fit and economic performance. Empirical evidence did not support the assertion that fit is related to performance in the first two opportunity contexts. Empirical support was found in the third study for strategic fit to political factors.
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