Inter-Firm Resources and Sustained Competitive Advantage

Stephan Duschek ()
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Stephan Duschek: Free University of Berlin, Institute of Business Administration

management revue. Socio-economic Studies, 2004, vol. 15, issue 1, 53-73

Abstract: Resource-oriented perspectives of strategic management are on the way to discovering a topic to which little attention has been paid so far within their own ranks: inter-firm networks. In this article, it is argued that the resource- and competence-based view ? despite its new facet of analysis ? falls back on a traditional firm-focused explanation. Conversely, the relational view, the youngest branch of strategic management, follows completely new explanatory paths. Here, an inter-firm focus is established. Overall, there are two related, but diametrically opposed strategic management approaches, each assigning a different kind of importance to the meaning of competition in the context of analysing cooperative inter-firm relations.

Keywords: Resource-based view; relational view; networks; network resources; social network theory (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: F23 J53 M10 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2004
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