Firm Level Performance Implications of Nonmarket Actions

This article draws from theories of business-government relations and Austrian economics to develop a model relating firm performance to the firm’s market and nonmarket actions. Nonmarket actions represent one mechanism for the implementation of firm strategies. The model is tested using an original...

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Published in:Business & Society
Main Authors: Shaffer, Brian, Quasney, Thomas J., Grimm, Curtis M.
Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
Language:English
Published: SAGE Publications 2000
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Online Access:http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/000765030003900202
http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf/10.1177/000765030003900202
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Summary:This article draws from theories of business-government relations and Austrian economics to develop a model relating firm performance to the firm’s market and nonmarket actions. Nonmarket actions represent one mechanism for the implementation of firm strategies. The model is tested using an original data set covering airlines serving international routes in the North Atlantic region. Results suggest that nonmarket actions have a positive and significant impact on performance, measured in three ways: profits, market share, and capacity utilization.