This paper seeks to offer a theoretical platform where the modern “resource-based view” of the firm might meet with evolutionary economics and the study of entrepreneurship, and with the economics of industrial organization. It does so by proposing the concept of the “resource economy” within which productive resources are produced and exchanged between firms. This is presented as the dual of t...

Recent work in human resource development emphasises the fact that individual skills are strongly oriented towards the future. They enable a person to tackle upcoming challenges in a self-organised manner. So both the current requirements and the skills necessary in the future have to be seen as a strategic competitive advantage for the company. This change in perspective makes it possible to u...

Corporate incubators for technology development are a recent phenomenon whose functioning and implications are not yet well understood. The resource-based view can offer an explanatory model on how corporate incubators function as specialised corporate units that hatch new businesses. While tangible resources, such as the financial, physical and even explicit knowledge flow, are all visible, an...

This paper studies the relationships between the choice of a sourcing mode for information systems, the value of the resources used in systems development activities and the presence of those resources at sufficient level within the firm. The objective is to better understand the factors underlying the decision to keep the development of an information system inside the firm or to entrust it to...

Increasingly, companies are drawing on capacities provided by external consultants to design and execute strategic IT initiatives. However, despite evidence of the impact of such services on IT performance, little is still known about the roles external consultants serve in relation to specific strategic IT initiatives and how companies can draw effectively on their services. This paper investi...

To date, IT outsourcing research has focused on applied problems and case studies. Two bodies of theory offer useful and needed perspectives on both the risks and the factors or variables which affect the risk of outsourcing IT. Transaction cost economics provides a thorough description of the conditions under which the risks of opportunism and inflated transaction costs are high. The Resource-...

Based on the Resource Space Model, this paper proposes a view mechanism for finding and reusing legacy Resource Spaces according to users’ idiosyncratic resource interests. It establishes flexible restructuring mechanism of legacy Resource Spaces in the distributed interconnection environment. As a viewpoint organization strategy, the resource subject tree is proposed as an effective way for di...

In recent decade, the business of manufacturing and service organizations alike is strongly conditioned by unpredictable changes taking place in a global market. The question is how to provide efficient and cost-effective responses on time. Current systems such as extended enterprise resource planning (EERP) and supply chain management (SCM) do not provide adequate facilities for addressing thi...

Strategic alliance represents an important business activity for firms to access desirable resources and to enhance their competitive advantages. An important task concerning strategic alliance is alliance formation prediction, which can help a firm anticipate possible alliance actions of its rivals and accordingly develop strategies to prevent their partnering opportunities or neutralize the a...