Currently, acquisition of resources in banks is subject to attraction of the resources of banking customers. Meanwhile, the Bank’s valuable customers are one of the best resources to make profit for banks. Several different models are introduced for evaluation of profitability of the customers; but most of them are classical models and they are unable to evaluate the customers in complete and o...

Currently, acquisition of resources in banks is subject to attraction of the resources of banking customers. Meanwhile, the Bank’s valuable customers are one of the best resources to make profit for banks. Several different models are introduced for evaluation of profitability of the customers; but most of them are classical models and they are unable to evaluate the customers in complete and o...

Part I of this paper applies the principles of the philosophy of science and the derived scientific method to analyze the foundational concepts and core proposition of the ResourceBased View (RBV) as popularized by Barney (1986, 1991, 1997). This analysis identifies seven fundamental conceptual deficiencies and logic problems in Barney’s conceptualization of “strategically valuable resources” a...

The resource-based view of the firm attributes superior firm performance to organizational resources that are valuable, rare, non-substitutable, and difficult to imitate. Aligned with this view, the authors contend that both information technology (IT) and knowledge management (KM) comprise critical organizational resources that contribute to superior firm performance. The authors also examine ...

There are very few resources available to the timber industry that will enable the accurate identification of major tree species within Papua New Guinea. The unnecessary destruction of rare and otherwise valuable tree species has, in part, resulted from the inability to distinguish these species from the preferred timber species. Furthermore, the mixture of unwanted timber with that from prefer...