The Resource-Based Tangle: Towards A Sustainable Explanation Of Competitive Advantage

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Competitive Strategy
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Competitive Advantage,
Copenhagen Business School,
Management,
Strategy
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Copenhagen Business School

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Overview: The arguably dominant contemporary approach to the analysis of sustained competitive advantage is the resource-based view. The paper argues that much resource-based research rests on partial, implicit and problematic assumptions, and that this has led to conclusions that are much less general than the proponents of the view believe. In general, the view suffers from a confusion of what are necessary conditions for the expression of sustained competitive advantage and what are additional conditions which only serve to give the expression of sustained competitive advantage a specific form.

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Format: PDF | Size: 112KB | Date: Feb 2000 | Pages: 42

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