ABSTRACT
We focus this study from the configurational approach because it allows us to interpret the heterogeneity of strategic behaviour of firms in terms of distinctive configurations of dimensions related to a context and a period of time (Meyer et al., 1993). Thus, we expect that among companies belonging to an ID there will emerge a certain number of OCs in which relational and competitive factors are aligned (Short et al., 2008). From this approach, the firms’ performance arises from internal consistency between those factors and their consistency with the ID to which they belong (Bantel, 1998; García-Villaverde and Ruiz-Ortega, 2007). Despite the interest of the configurational approach
to gain insight into how those companies belonging to IDs relate and compete, there are no studies that address empirically the existence and efficiency of OCs in the context of the IDs (Camisón and Molina, 1998).
