This article was downloaded by: [175.145.110.157] On: 23 March 2013‚ At: 02:22 Publisher: Routledge Informa Ltd Registered in England and Wales Registered Number: 1072954 Registered office: Mortimer House‚ 37-41 Mortimer Street‚ London W1T 3JH‚ UK Journal of Marketing Management Publication details‚ including instructions for authors and subscription information: http://www.tandfonline.com/loi/rjmm20 Competitive advantage‚ private-label brands‚ and category profitability Michael S. Pepe
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Outline the RBV of the firm and show how this new concept offers HR opportunities to be a more strategic function. Introduction The resource-based view (RBV) is a business management tool used to determine the strategic resources available to a company. The fundamental principle of the RBV is that the basis for a competitive advantage of a firm lies primarily in the application of the bundle of valuable resources at the firm ’s disposal. To transform a short-run competitive advantage into a sustained
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companies may be able to access inputs more cheaply than if they were to produce them directly. In this case‚ the externalization advantage is being calculated in financial terms. A more advanced approach to outsourcing is the ’resource-based view (RBV) of the firm’ construct‚ arising from a seminal text by Edith Penrose (1959). This is an analysis that identifies a
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and Nelson António2 1 Católica-Lisbon School of Business Economics‚ Universidade Católica Portuguesa‚ Palma de Cima‚ Lisbon‚ Portugal. 2 ISCTE-IUL Lisbon‚ Av. Forças Armadas‚ Lisbon‚ Portugal. Accepted 13 July‚ 2012 The resource-based view (RBV) argues that valuable‚ rare‚ inimitable resources and organization (VRIO) lead to competitive advantage. Dynamic capabilities (DC) are a comparatively new field and the related literature is mainly conceptual. Capabilities can be considered as the
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Week 5 Block 2 – Reading 5 Looking Inside For Competitive Advantage Jay Barney 1 Introduction • Focus has been placed on the relationship between the firm’s environmental opportunities and threats‚ and the firm’s strengths and weaknesses (SWOT analysis ). • Michael Porter’s work on the ‘five forces model’ helps understand the importance of external threats and opportunities. • Barney emphasizes the competitive implications of the firm’s internal strengths and weaknesses. To Barney the SW should
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Business Review Managers complain that strategic planning is too slow to keep up with changes in global competition and technology. Resource Based View (RBV) combines the internal analysis and external analysis of the industry and the competitive environment. Therefore‚ RBV builds on‚ but does not replace‚ the two approaches to strategy. RBV sees companies as very different collections of physical and intangible assets and capabilities. No two companies are alike because no two companies have had
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Resource Base View Theory What is RBV all about? RBV theory is all about the managing the resources well. If a company can improvise‚ utilize‚ manage and hold their important‚ big‚ numerous of their resources‚ they can survive and be a good competitor to the existing company either in the domestic or international market. Nowadays‚ whether the company are first entry or Monopoly Company in the market‚ it does not mean they can control the markets. The trends today is whether they have enough
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Center for Advanced Human Resource Studies (CAHRS) CAHRS Working Paper Series Cornell University ILR School Year 2005 A Resource-Based View Of International Human Resources: Toward A Framework of Integrative and Creative Capabilities Shad S. Morris Cornell University Scott A. Snell Cornell University Patrick M. Wright Cornell University This paper is posted at DigitalCommons@ILR. http://digitalcommons.ilr.cornell.edu/cahrswp/284 CAHRS at Cornell University 187 Ives Hall Ithaca
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1. Makadok (2001) emphasizes the distinction between capabilities and resources by defining capabilities as “a special type of resource‚ specifically an organizationally embedded non-transferable firm-specific resource whose purpose is to improve the productivity of the other resources possessed by the firm” [4](p389). “[R]esources are stocks of available factors that are owned or controlled by the organization‚ and capabilities are an organization’s capacity to deploy resources”:[3] p. 35. Essentially
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Strength: 1) Product range 2) Brand name 3) Product quality | Weakness: 1) Inventory cost 2) Unstable supply 3) Labor retentions | Opportunity: 1) High growth 2) Low Inflation 3) Political certainty | Threat: 1) Strong competition 2) Regional disparity 3) Reduced tax benefits | Sources of competitive advantage: Market position: porters -The internal rivalry: -Identify competitors: -firms making the same product or products to the same customers at a similar
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