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Mapping competitive prediction capability: Construct conceptualization and performance payoffs

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  • Lim, Lewis K.S.

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The strategy literature routinely emphasizes the importance of competitor assessment as part of strategic analysis and planning. In particular, the ability to sense and accurately predict competitors' future moves – referred to here as the competitive prediction capability – can form a basis for sustainable competitive advantage. Yet, managers are not always well-skilled at assessing competitors and often do not accurately anticipate competitors' actions. Apart from human factors that inhibit astute competitive reasoning, managers also lack the motivation to develop a competitive prediction capability because of perceived low payoffs from performing such an activity. Indeed, research has neither fully explicated the rare and difficult-to-develop nature of competitive prediction capability nor offered much empirical evidence of its rent-producing potential. Accordingly, this article conceptualizes competitive prediction as a learned, organizationally-embedded capability and empirically establishes its performance payoffs. Results from a tracking study via the Markstrat simulation show that firms that develop a competitive prediction capability achieve greater improvements in profitability and stock price performance over time. In addition, firms that employ data-driven approaches to competitor assessment make more accurate predictions than do firms that primarily rely on informal intelligence gathered from the grapevine. These findings hold important theoretical and managerial implications.

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  • Lim, Lewis K.S., 2013. "Mapping competitive prediction capability: Construct conceptualization and performance payoffs," Journal of Business Research, Elsevier, vol. 66(9), pages 1576-1586.
  • Handle: RePEc:eee:jbrese:v:66:y:2013:i:9:p:1576-1586
    DOI: 10.1016/j.jbusres.2012.09.021
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