This short literature review argues that the Resource-Based View (RBV) school of strategic management has recently become of increased interest to scholars of healthcare organizations. RBV links well to the broader interest in more effective Knowledge Mobilization (KM) in healthcare. The paper outlines and discusses key concepts, texts and authors from the RBV tradition and gives recent example...

Digital technologies are essential tools that Service-based firms can integrate into their business to transform operations. However, in the emerging countries’ perspective, research on application of digital orientation among is less researched. This poses questions scholars why adoption quite low developing economies. The purpose this article examine impediments and countries. Inspired by a r...

the question that most of management, organization and strategy scholars would like to find some answer for it is: “why some firms outperform the others?” in various time periods, scholars have considered to different factors for answering that question. some scholars in industry structure view (porter, 1985), had highlighted the environmental and out of organization factors and industry type i...

The Resource Space Model is a new semantic data model for managing various resources. Based on the model, this paper proposes a view mechanism for finding and reusing legacy Resource Spaces according to users’ idiosyncratic interests. It establishes flexible reorganizing mechanism of legacy Resource Spaces to reduce redundant work. As a viewpoint organization strategy, the resource subject tree...

The resource-based view (RBV) has been welcomed by researchers as a sound basis upon which to develop theory in the field of HRM. However, we argue that the RBV is overly rationalistic, unitarist and internally focused compared with what we know about organizations from sociological and institutionalist perspectives. The more recent complex adaptive systems perspective constitutes a more promis...

This paper examines connections between data-driven models for analyzing a firm's strategic plans, which use activity-based costing and mathematical programming, and the resource-based view of the firm. After brief reviews of the three disciplines, extensions of activity-based costing methods to mathematical programming models for strategic resource planning are discussed. Applications of these...

Background. Many countries worldwide use sports events as a tool to stimulate both their national and local economies. To gain a competitive advantage, knowledge of sports event success is essential for stakeholders and hosting countries. However, due to the diverse conceptualizations of event success, the knowledge of the issue is fragmented, and there is a lack of comprehensive studies for sc...

Introduction Competitive advantage is obtained when an organisation develops or acquires a set of attributes (or executes actions) that allow it to outperform its competitors. The development of theories that help explain competitive advantage has occupied the attention of the management community for the better part of half a century. This chapter aims to provide an overview of the key theorie...