Two opposing theories have been proposed to explain competitive advantage of firms. First, the market-based view (MBV) is focused on product or market positions and competition while second, the resource-based view (RBV) aims at explaining success by inwardly looking at unique resources and capabilities of a firm. Research has been struggling to distinguish impacts of these theories for illumin...

• A dominant theoretical paradigm in academic strategic management circles is the Resource-Based View (RBV). This paper reviews the literature of this position and the extent to which the RBV may be seen as a source of practical guidance for managers seeking competitive advantage and strategic success. • The theories of management academics should be of practical value to managers, otherwise su...

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...

Recent studies have highlighted the utility of the resource-based view (RBV) in understanding the development and application of IT capabilities and resources in organisations. Nevertheless, IS research has inadvertently carried over several fundamental problems and weaknesses with the RBV from reference disciplines. This paper proposes an integrative theory, model and research framework that d...

Supplier integration has been a hot topic for both academicians and practitioners since the booming of supply chain management and popularity of Japanese supplier management practices. Previous studies have contributed a lot to the performance impacts of supplier integration. However, not much has been done in investigating the enablers, and little attention has been paid from the resource-base...

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...

This paper studies platform ecosystems, a novel business entity built upon a platform coordinating the interactions between suppliers and users, particularly in the IT service sectors. Borrowing words from two core firm theories resource-based view (RBV) and transaction cost view (TCV), we propose that the platform ecosystem works at the boundary between “market and hierarchy.” To show this, ...