Competitive advantage: logical and philosophical considerations

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Towards ‘An Intellectual Capital-Based View of the Firm’: Origins and Nature (2011, background): “As it is well known, nowadays an important set of strategy researchers use the resource-based view (RBV) of the firm in their investigations (Powell, 2001).”
Paradox And Theorizing Within The Resource-Based View (2006, background): “Clearly, despite attempts to the contrary, naive falsification as a basis for refuting RBV’s core tenets has been roundly discredited (Mahoney, 1993; Powell, 2001).”
Leveraging marketing capabilities into competitive advantage and export performance (2015, background): “In terms of the relationship between competitive advantage and performance, whereas many previous studies treated the two constructs as interchangeable, they are conceptually different (Newbert 2008; Powell 2001).”
Managing Firm Resources in Dynamic Environments to Create Value: Looking Inside the Black Box (2007, background): “In turn, a competitive advantage contributes to increased owner wealth when the firm’s long-term profit margin is positive (Hoopes, Madsen, & Walker, 2003; Powell, 2001).”
From Temporary Competitive Advantage to Sustainable Competitive Advantage (2015, methodology): “Competitive advantage and firm performance As Powell (2001) notes, prior theories suggest that superior performance arises from different SCAs.”