The Resource-Based Tangle: Towards a Sustainable Explanation of Competitive Advantage

By N. J. Foss, Thorbjørn Knudsen. 2003

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To advance the RBV we propose separation of necessary and additional conditions for the expression of SCA. We argue that there are only two necessary conditions, namely uncertainty and immobility and that all other conditions are additional. Copyright © 2003 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

Subfields: Finance, Strategy and Management

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What Do Resource- and Capability-Based Theories Propose? (2011, background): “…associated with the emergence and persistence of performance differences, and a failure to carefully test the logic and causal mechanisms that link control of resources with particular characteristics to performance outcomes (Foss & Knudsen, 2003; Gavetti & Levinthal, 2004; Peteraf & Barney, 2003).”
A resource-based approach to performance and competition : An overview of the connections between resources and competition (2004, background): “Key words: Resources, competition, competitive advantage, performance”
Unlocking the black box: exploring the link between high-performance work systems and performance. (2011, background): “Despite its popularity in the strategic HRM literature, the resource-based view has met challenge (i.e., Foss & Knudsen, 2003; Priem & Butler, 2001).”
Developing a measure of competitive advantage (2013, background): “, 1997; Eisenhardt and Martin, 2000; O’Regan and Ghobadian, 2004), surprisingly it does not provide any clear definition of competitive advantage (Ma, 2000; Arend, 2003; Rumelt, 2003; Foss and Knudsen, 2003; O’Shannassy, 2008; Sigalas and Pekka Economou, 2013).”
An Opportunity for Me? The Role of Resources in Opportunity Evaluation Decisions (2009, neutral): “Before the firm employs its resources in the effort to gain a superior position and earn rents, there must be forces in the market which limit competition for those rents and ensure that the ‘rent differential is not eliminated through product market competition’ ( Foss and Knudsen, 2003 ).”
The Resource-Based View: A Review and Assessment of Its Critiques (2010, background): “There are also polemical articles directly critiquing the RBV (N. J. Foss & Knudsen, 2003; Spender, 2006).”
Competitive strategy and performance measurement in the Malaysian context (2008, background): “While these issues remain unresolved, much of the prominent work in the business strategy literature has shifted from a typology orientation to a heightened role of organization-specific factors as characterized by the resource-based perspective (Foss and Knudsen, 2003; Ray et al., 2004).”
Social Capital and the Resource-Based View of the Firm (2009, background): “However, the existing literature offers very little in the way of practical advice on how to actually create an integrated resource base or a core competency (Foss and Knudsen 2003; Priem and Butler 2001).”
From Temporary Competitive Advantage to Sustainable Competitive Advantage (2015, neutral): “Foss and Knudsen (2003) also reflect on Barney’s classification of VRIN conditions, and propose two necessary conditions for achieving SCA: uncertainty and immobility.”
Management, strategic management theories and thelinkage with organizational competitive advantage from theresource-based View (2009, result): “Furthermore, other studies have indeed provided support on the importance of having a good strategy to attain competitive advantage from the resource-based view (Hult and Ketchen Jr., 2001; Ramsay, 2001; Foss and Knudsen, 2003; Gottschalg and Zollo, 2007).”