The resource-based view (RBV) of firms has emerged to provide colour and context to previously homogeneous models of firms and industries. Recent research in this field seeks to better understand the processes of social complexity and causal ambiguity that RBV has developed to explain the elusive impacts of resource interactions within and outside the firm. This paper outlines the salient liter...

The resource-based view (RBV) has historically privileged the firm's internal resources and capabilities, often at the exclusion of its institutional context. In this paper, we introduce a culturally informed RBV that explains how cultural elements in the firm's institutional context shape the economic value associated with a firm's strategy. We posit that a firm's institutional context may cre...

Although the resource-based view (RBV) is one of the most popular and fruitful areas of strategy research, it often perplexes scholars from other disciplines. Also, it is unclear whether strategy scholars themselves agree on the RBV’s basic issues and premises. To clarify the contribution of the RBV, in this paper we elaborate its basic tenets and relate them to other current research on interf...

In recent years strategic management scholars have expressed enormous interest in the resource-based view (RBV) of the firm. Despite its appeal as a conceptual framework, the RBV has often been criticized for lack of an empirical base. Few researchers have been able to develop measures of resources and capabilities, identify their importance in a specific industry context, and link firms’ resou...

The resource-based view (RBV) considers organizational routines as fundamental for IT value creation as they determine the efficiency with which firms transform inputs to outputs. Yet, our understanding of how routines affect firm performance is still incomplete, especially concerning the contribution and complementarities between IT and non-IT-resources. As routines involve humans and consist ...

The resource-based view (RBV) has been widely adopted as the theoretical code for harnessing the strategic contributions of information technology (IT). However, mere ownership of resources, as prescribed by this body of theory, is no guarantee of competitiveness. Furthermore, RBV does not convey the wider concerns of social and environmental sustainability that many leading corporations now ac...

Many individuals infected with hepatitis C virus (HCV) develop a chronic infection, and of those who are treated with pegylated interferon and ribavirin (RBV), many do not respond. While the nucleoside analog RBV improves treatment outcome, and will likely be an important component of therapy with next-generation viral inhibitors, RBV's mechanism is controversial. Most of RBV's proposed mechani...

E-learning is a new strategic arena for higher education, and higher education institutions (HEIs) need to acquire the necessary competencies and capabilities to participate. These may be developed in-house or acquired externally. E-learning involves acquisition and management of new information systems, and deployment of new capabilities. A resource-based view (RBV) suggests a rational stepwis...