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An analysis of 399 banks self typed as prospectors, analyzers or defen
ders indicated that the self typing paragraph approach was a useful me
asurement instrument which has reasonable convergent validity, support
ing Shortell and Zajac (1990), and providing further evidence of the v
alue of the self typing paragraph approach in strategy research.