Is the Resource-Based “View” a Useful Perspective for Strategic Management Research? Yes

By Jay B. Barney. 2001

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Subfields: Anthropology, Strategy and Management

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In Anthropology

1. J. Adegbesan
2. Patricia Ordóñez de Pablos
3. Anita M. McGahan
4. N. J. Foss
5. Gregory Jackson
6. Richard Deeg
7. Sait Gurbuz
8. Devi R. Gnyawal

In Strategy and Management

1. Mike W. Peng
2. Mike Wright
3. N. J. Foss
4. Shaker A. Zahra
5. R. Duane Ireland
6. Michael A. Hitt
7. Dave J. Ketchen
8. Robert E. Ployhart

Citations in the corpus

• Competitive strategy and performance measurement in the Malaysian context (2008, background): “This focus on firm resources has further defined the nature and complexities associated with variations across organizations (Barney, 2001; Barney et al., 2001).”
• The dynamics of value creation: mapping your intellectual performance drivers (2004, background): “Scholars supporting the resources-based view of the firm (Wernerfelt, 1984; Grant, 1991; Petergraf, 1993; Barney et al., 2001; Barney, 2001) consider the firm as a bundle of resources or assets in which the different assets depend on each other to create value.”
• The Institution-Based View as a Third Leg for a Strategy Tripod. (2009, neutral): “Overall, Barney (2001, p. 52) argued that Priem and Butler’s primary criticisms were “unfounded.””
• The influence of mergers on firms' product‐mix strategies (2004, background): “…some of which are rare, inimitable, and tied semi-permanently to the firm, and that if used effectively this resource asymmetry can be a source of sustained competitive advantage (Amit and Schoemaker, 1993; Barney, 1991, 2001; Collis and Montgomery, 1995; Conner, 1991; Grant, 1991; Hall, 1992).”
• Innovation in Family Firms: A Systematic Literature Review and Guidance for Future Research (2018, background): “A minority use the resource-based view of the firm (Barney 2001), discussing whether and how family involvement and/or other family-specific attributes and resources influence firm innovativeness (Carnes and Ireland 2013; Penney and Combs 2013).”
• Insights and New Directions from Demand-Side Approaches to Technology Innovation, Entrepreneurship, and Strategic Management Research (2012, background): “The RBV has been widely advocated (e.g., Barney, 1991, 2001; Peteraf & Barney, 2003) and criticized (e.g., Arend & Lévesque, 2010; Priem & Butler, 2001a, 2001b).”
• Making Intangibles “Tangible” in Tests of Resource-Based Theory (2011, background): “A paradox of RBT is that these very resources that underlie value creation elude examination (Barney, 2001).”
• Organizational Capabilities, Patterns of Knowledge Accumulation and Governance Structures in Business Firms: An Introduction (2008, background): “…of unique and idiosyncratic resources, which is nowadays shared, albeit with a different interpretation, by the ‘resource-based’ view of the firm (Barney 1991, 2001).3 Scholars who identify themselves with the ‘resource-based view’ examine the question of what sorts of resources confer…”