On the Origins of Competitive Advantage: Strategic Factor Markets and Heterogeneous Resource Complementarity

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Strategic Human Capital (2014, background): “In the case of most other resources, the strategic problem is how to acquire the resource for less than it is ultimately worth (Adegbesan, 2009; Barney, 1986).”
Human Capital Is Dead; Long Live Human Capital Resources! (2014, background): “Strategy research has extensively addressed combinations of complementary resources (Adegbesan, 2009; Denrell et al., 2003; Ennen & Richter, 2010).”
“Our Most Important Asset” (2014, background): “Second, human capital resources may be bundled or combined with other resources to create complementarities, and complementary resources offer synergistic value greater than the sum of their parts (Adegbesan, 2009; Schmidt & Keil, 2013).”
The Whole Is More Than the Sum of Its Parts— Or Is It? A Review of the Empirical Literature on Complementarities in Organizations (2010, background): “As the recent work by Adegbesan (2009) showed, these insights can be utilized to explain persistent performance differences between seemingly similar firms (e.”
What Do Resource- and Capability-Based Theories Propose? (2011, background): “Adegbesan (2009) demonstrates the notion of unique complementarity with strategic factor market logic explicitly.”