The resource-based view can be positioned relative to at least three theoretical traditions: SCPbased theories of industry determinants of firm performance, neo-classical microeconomics, and evolutionary economics. In the 1991 article, only the first of these ways of positioning the resourcebased view is explored. This article briefly discusses some of the implications of positioning the resour...

The resource-based view of the firm has not been systematically applied to strategic alliances. By examining the role of firm resources in strategic alliances, we attempt, in this paper, to put forward a general resource-based theory of strategic alliances, synthesizing the various findings in the literature on alliances from a resource-based view. The proposed theory covers four major aspects ...

We apply insights from organizational behavior, psychology, and sociology to make the case that community in which a firm is embedded valuable, rare, inimitable, nonsubstitutable resource holds potential as source of sustained competitive advantage. First, we review several key principles resource-based view (RBV) show how they strategic resource, incorporating prior work simultaneously address...