Sudharshan, D. Furrer, Olivier Arakoni, Ramesh A 2015 Performance is the lifeblood of a firm’s management. Performance itself depends on the adaptation of strategy based on learning and the environment. An important way that firms adapt their strategy is through imitation or mimetic isomorphism. Imitation implies a referent for such adaptations. This article seeks to determine who or what should serve as that referent. Accordingly, this research (1) develops a broad and rich model of industry dynamics, bringing together literature from industrial economics, strategic groups, learning, and resource-based theories; (2) examines the robustness of imitations strategies; and (3) develops a framework of the managerial implications of imitative behavior in varying industry conditions. application/pdf https://folia.unifr.ch/global/documents/309473 https://folia.unifr.ch/documents/309473/files/2015_Sudharshan_Robust.pdf eng https://doc.rero.ch/record/208725 info:eu-repo/semantics/altIdentifier/doi/10.1002/mde.2657 info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess License undefined Managerial and Decision Economics. - Blackwell Publishing Ltd. - 2015, vol. 36, p. 139-157 Strategies Performance info:eu-repo/classification/udc/33 Robust Imitation Strategies http://purl.org/coar/resource_type/c_6501