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Showing 1 to 20 of 156 for “"Resource Based View"”.
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A Resource -Based View of Strategic Alliances: Organizational Capabilities, Governance, and Performance
Based on the U.S. steel industry data, the results are largely consistent with the general proposition. The results associate some firm resources with alliancing behavior and industry alliancing behavior with increased competitiveness in terms of increased profitability and labor productivity even …
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Resource-based view of social media as a source of sustained competitive advantage
… it can be used for competitive advantage. The resource-based-view of a firm suggests that resources that are rare, valuable, imperfectly imitable and non-substitutable can create sustained competitive advantage. This thesis uses the resource-based view of the firm applied to five case studies …
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Diversification and refocusing in the media industry: perspectives from the resource-based view and the management fashion theory
Die Struktur der Medienindustrie wird von Synergien zwischen alten und neuen Marktteilnehmern bestimmt. Die Diversifikationsstrategien von Medienunternehmen stehen dabei im Fokus der medienökonomischen Forschung. Die vorliegende Arbeit untersucht die Entscheidungstreiber für Diversifikations- und …
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HOW TECHNOLOGY ADOPTION, HUMAN BEHAVIOR, AND COST EFFICIENCY INFLUENCE HOSPITAL TASK ALLOCATION: A RESOURCE-BASED VIEW AND TECHNOLOGICAL UNEMPLOYMENT PERSPECTIVE
… competition between AL and HL as strategic resources within hospital environments. Grounded in Resource-Based View (RBV) and Technological Unemployment Theory (TUT), the findings demonstrate that hospital managers overwhelmingly prefer AL over HL. Managers cited cost efficiency, labor …
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Extending the Resource-Based View to Explain Venture Capital Firm Networks' Contributions to IPO Performance: A Study of Human-Based Factors
… Brinberg and McGrath (1985). First, the resource-based view of the firm provides a context to support relationships determined from theory in Sociology, Finance and Entrepreneurshp. Using these interdisciplinary theories, the expected contributions of National Venture Capital Association …
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The relationship between knowledge management, information and communication technologies and performance from the resource-based view in small and medium manufacturing firms
… in SMEs. Drawing mainly on the knowledge-based view (KBV) theory, this study suggests that knowledge management capabilities and ICT capabilities are potential sources of competitive advantage and, thus, those firms possessing these capabilities will achieve superior organisational …
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The human resource based view of the firm : the development of a model and its empirical evaluation in the commercial banking industry of Bahrain
… to explore the distinctive attributes of firms' resources and their relationship with sustained competitive advantage (SCA). The emphasis is on the Human Resource-Based View (HRBV) of the firm and the strategic and managerial conditions under which human resources are a potential source of SCA. …
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A resource-based view of the firm : a path dependency investigation into the sources of sustainable competitive advantage : an empirical study of the University of Rhodesia, 1945-1980
… in the same path. Studies have criticised the resource-based view of the firm (RBV) and path dependency concepts as being under-theorised and under-served empirically. This study examined and clarified factors that were crucial in the emergence of UR, and helped to perpetuate its dominance over …
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A resource-based view of the firm : integrating the role of IT as a strategic resource - an empirical study of South African personal financial services (Assurance) firms, 1999-2003
This research explores an "inside the black box" view on how IT enables sustainable competitive advantage. Most researchers have investigated IT competitive competencies that make up a firm's strategic framework to understand competitive advantage. However, Resource-Based Theory (RBT) probes into …
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How an Organization's Environmental Orientation Impacts Environmental Performance and its Resultant Financial Performance through Green Computing Hiring Practices: An Empirical Investigation of the Natural Resource-Based View of the Firm
… embodied in Strategic Fit Theory, the Natural Resource-Based View of the Firm (NRBV), strategic human resource management, and other relevant literature streams to empirically demonstrate how the environmental orientation of a firm's strategy impacts their environmental performance and …
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Information technology and sustained competitive advantage : a research model for the effect of information technology on sustained competitive advantage and an empirical analysis
… studied from two main perspectives: the market based perspective and the resource based view. The market based perspective emphasises market structure as the primary cause of a company's strategy and the resource based view builds on the concept of an enterprise as a bundle of unique resources. …
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Performance measurement framework for the oil and gas supply chain
… measures, and organisational performance. The resource-based view (RBV) theory and Miles and Snow's organisational fit theory were, respectively, used to explain the research and as the basis for analysis of results. The organisational fit theory states that organisation's approach to …
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Resources, autonomy and strategy : perceptions of competitive advantage in the UK automotive components industry.
… from strong demarcation lines. The case of the resource-based view of firm (RBV) which has emerged as an alternative approach to industry-based explanations of how organisations develop and sustain competitive advantage, particularly demonstrates this divide. Since then, these alternative views …
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Modeling performance differentials in large construction organisations in South Africa
… the constructs: organisational characteristics, resources, capabilities, competitive strategies, business environment and performance of large construction organisations in South Africa. It examines whether the synthesis of different theoretical views - industrial organisation, contingency …
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The physics of the value chain towards a dynamic theory of strategy
… stream of research in the arena of the dynamic resource-based view to propose a simple heuristic for strategic corporate foresight powered by Little's Law. Notably, we propose a throughput equality required to align and synchronize resources in the value chain. We borrow the terminology of the …
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Understanding the Microfoundations of Environmental Improvement in SMEs: A Comparative Analysis of Pakistan’s Leather Industry
… framework informed by institutional theory, resource-based view, natural-resource-based view and dynamic capabilities perspective offers a better approach to develop the holistic and in-depth understanding of the environmental behaviour of SMEs. It enables the researcher to effectively …
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Dynamics and architectures of innovation systems
… in innovations and to develop a more holistic view of innovation systems. Three key elements, knowledge diversity, spatial proximity, and strategic relatedness, are found to be fundamental to innovations after analyzing and comparing different studies. However, these three factors derived from …
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An investigation into the factors underpinning the early rapid internationalisation of young South African high technology firms: A resource based approach
… research seeks to fill this gap by using the resource based view to link the relevant key concepts which underpin the internationalisation of South African ERISFs.
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Financial Technology and Sustainability Strategies: In the Perspective of Banking Industry in Malaysia
… of FinTech on sustainability strategies with a resource-based view (RBV) as a mediator in Malaysia’s banking industry and develops an impact model based on that relationship. The relationship is based on the resource-based view theory and sustainable development theory, in which FinTech is …
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