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Table 2. Articles in this special issue on temporary competitive advantages

Sequences: Long-term patterns or themes of multiple advantages over time

Erosion and compression: Short-term duration and magnitude of a single advantage

Action-based advantages

 • Hypercompetition

 • Competitive dynamics (especially

 response time and type to an action)

 • Evolutionary theory

 • Austrian economics

 • Opportunistic search

 • Creative destruction

How sequences of competitive actions create advantage for firms in nascent markets

Life in the fast lane: origins of competitive interaction in new versus established markets

By Rindova, Ferrier, and Wiltbank, 2010

By Chen, Lin, and Mitchel, 2010

Resource-based advantages

 • Dynamic capabilities

 • Resource life cycles

 • High velocity

 • Strengths and weaknesses

 • New 7S's

Complementarity-based

The dynamic interplay of capability

hypercompetition in the software

 strengths and weaknesses: investigating

 industry: theory and empirical test,

 the bases of temporary competitive

 1990-2002

 advantage

By Lee, Venkatraman, Tanriverdi, and Iyer, 2010

By Sirmon, Hitt, Arregle, and Campbell, 2010

Performance-related advantages

 • Volatility

 • Continuous change

 • Rarity

 • Time compression and duration of

 superior performance

 • Hypercompetitive shift

 • Self-cannibalization

Institutional development and hypercompetition in emerging economies

Erosion, time compression, and self-displacement of leaders in hypercompetitive environments

By Hermelo and Vassolo, 2010

By Pacheco-de-Almeida, 2010

We selected a set of articles that would fill out the matrix in Table 2 in order to demonstrate how temporary advantage can be researched using the six perspectives in theTable, and how the unit of analysis may vary from the firm-, industry-, and cross-national-levels of analysis. In addition, this special issue includes papers using a wide variety of methods running from mathematical modeling, simulations, survey methods, and methods imported from psychology concerning how to identify patterns among sequences of behaviors. And two of the seven articles use data sets based on firms outside the U.S. The articles make contributions to both the antecedents and consequences of temporary advantage.

The antecedents of temporary advantages