Although managers cite human resources as a firm's most important asset, many organizational decisions do not reflect this belief. This paper uses the VRIO (value, rareness, imitability, and organization) framework to examine the role that the Human Resource (HR) function plays in developing a sustainable competitive advantage. We discuss why some popularly cited sources of sustainable competit...

One of the prevailing views is that technology-based IT assets do not have the potential for sustainable competitive advantage because they are usually not rare and can be easily acquired by competitors. However, previous RBV-based research on the competitive potential of IT has paid inadequate attention to IT applications, which are a combination of application software and (digital) informati...

identifying the influential factors in sustainable competitive advantage through a resource based view (rbv) is one of the main and most important ways of creating a sustainable competitive position. the purpose of this paper, therefore, is to identify the csf in gaining sustainable competitive advantage in bank mellat based on a resource based view. in order to do this, a conceptual model was ...

Sustainable development (SD) requires companies to take into account both the social and environmental consequences within their activities. This paper presents research about green supply chain management and highlight the differences between green supply chain and traditional supply chain management. Then, the paper analyses the sources of the risk in green supply chain according to the SD. S...

A central problem in strategic management is how the inference ‘sustainable competitive advantage generates sustainable superior performance’ can be put into practice. In this article we develop a theoretical framework to understand the causal relationships among (1) sustainable competitive advantage, (2) configuration, (3) dynamic capability, and (4) sustainable superior performance. We propos...

Spirited debate in the field of strategic management wages as to whether competitive advantage is sustainable or merely temporary in today's highly dynamic environments. The objectivity of the debate, however, suffers from a lack of specificity regarding the terms " sustainable " and " temporary. " That is, the amount of time or duration of a sustained or temporary competitive advantage is neve...

Neoliberalising technoscience and environment: EU policy for competitive, sustainable biofuels Book Chapter How to cite: Levidow, Les; Papaioannou, Theo and Birch, Kean (2012). Neoliberalising technoscience and environment: EU policy for competitive, sustainable biofuels. In: Pellizzoni, Luigi and Ylönen, Marja eds. Neoliberalism and Technoscience. Theory, Technology and Society. Farnham: Ashga...