Access to full-text SAGE journal articles that have been carefully selected to support and expand on the concepts presented in each chapter. Journal articles can act as an ideal resource to help support your assignments and studies.

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Journal Article 1: The Applicability of Porter’s Generic Strategies in the Digital Age: Assumptions, Conjectures, and Suggestions
Eonsoo Kim, Dae-Il Nam, and J. L. Stimpert
Journal of Management, October 2004; vol. 30, 5: pp. 569-589. 

Questions that apply to article:

1. Is Porter’s generic strategy typology applicable to e-businesses?
2. Identify and discuss the competitive strategies associated with success in e-businesses?
3. How to the author’s findings relate to the combination strategy debate (i.e., the appropriateness of combining low cost and differentiation strategies?

Journal Article 2: Verifying the Miles and Snow strategy types in Australian small- and medium-size enterprises
Karen Blackmore and Keith Nesbitt
Australian Journal of Management, 0312896212444692, first published on June 11, 2012
IN PRESS

Questions that apply to article:

1. To what extent has research supported the validity of the Miles and Snow strategy typology?
2. How does organizational size influence the choice of a competitive strategy?
3. How does the nation in which a business operates (e.g., Australia) influence its selection of a competitive strategy?