rbv

1. Critique on RBV strategies

2. Propositions
• If the open-source software/computer-
educated worker prevails worldly wide
through Internet/from university, then the
business competitive advantage could be
massively improved.

3. The distinctiveness of resources
implicit potential
• Origins of advantage
– High value
– High scarcity
– High appropriability
• Sustainability of advantage
– Low substitutability
– Low imitability
– Low mobility

4. Sources of achieving Competitive
Advantage: explicit performance

5. Causality
• Inner implicit potential vs. outer explicit
performance
• Causal ambiguity?
• Necessary conditions or sufficient conditions?
• Industrial demanding factors?
• Endogenous or exogenous?
• Success & failure
– Natural selection
– Self-selection
– Adverse selection

6. Porter’s reconsideration
Managerial
choices
Drivers
Activities/
value
system
Attractive
industry
structure
Attractive
relative
position
Sustainable
competitive
advantage
Firm
success
Initial
conditions
Structural determinants of
differences in the cost or
buyer value of activities or
Groups of activities
Longitudinal
development process
Cross-sectional
Competitive process

7. Porter’s reconsideration
Managerial
choices
Drivers
Activities/
value
system
Attractive
industry
structure
Attractive
relative
position
Sustainable
competitive
advantage
Firm
success
Initial
conditions
Structural determinants of
differences in the cost or
buyer value of activities or
Groups of activities
Longitudinal
development process
Cross-sectional
Competitive process