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STRATEGIC MANAGEMENT JOURNAL
Volume 24, Issue 10, Pages 961-976Publisher
WILEY
DOI: 10.1002/smj.316
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resource-based view; dynamic capabilities; firm asymmetries; organization design
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The resource-based view of the firm postulates that sustainable abnormal rents call accrue to firms having valuable, rare, inimitable, non-substitutable resources and capabilities. Given these criteria, sustainable resources are hard to attain. Our study of some two dozen firms shows how some of them were able to overcome this dilemma by building not so much oil resources and capabilities as on asymmetries. Asymmetries are typically, skills, processes, or 'assets' a firm's competitors do not and cannot copy at a cost that affords economic rents. They are rare, inimitable and non-substitutable, although not connected to any engine of value creation, and, in fact, often act as liabilities. By discovering and reconceptualizing these asymmetries, embedding them within a complementary organizational design, and leveraging them across appropriate market opportunities, manY firms were able to turn asymmetries into sustainable capabilities. Copyright (C) 2003 John Wiley Sons, Ltd.
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