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Thomas and D’Aveni link the increase of within-industry heterogeneity of returns in the US manufacturing sector to increases in volatility and find a broad, monotonic shift towards hypercompetition.

Reference: Thomas and D’Aveni (2009) ‘The changing nature of competition in the US manufacturing sector, 1950–2002’, Strategic Organization, 7(4): 387–431.

Spencer, Peyrefitte and Churchman examine the extent to which consensus exists among managers’ perception of strategic groups and explore task and institutional factors that might influence such perceptions. 

Reference: Spencer, B., Peyrefitte, J. and Churchman, R. (2003) ‘Consensus and divergence in perceptions of cognitive strategic groups: evidence from the health care industry’, Strategic Organization, 1(2): 203–1230.