Entrepreneurial firms are argued to struggle between being different and being the same. To join the debate, we asked this question: How can entrepreneurial firms in a geographically concentrated locale gain both competitive advantage and legitimacy, given the competitive pressures for...

This study traces the changes in organizationalenvironment and firm strategies that have taken place in China since theimplementation of economic reforms in 1978. Data from a 1990 survey of 55state-owned enterprises (SOEs) in the electronics industry, and from a 2002survey of 104 electronics...