Capabilities, business processes, and competitive advantage: Choosing the dependent variable in empirical tests of the resource-based view

Strategic Management Journal

Volumn 25, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 23-37

  Ray, Gautam ^a   Barney, Jay B ^b   Muhanna, Waleed A ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

^b OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Business processes; Competitive advantage; Information technology; Insurance; Resource based view

Indexed keywords

COMPETITION; CUSTOMER SATISFACTION; INDUSTRIAL RESEARCH; INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY; INSURANCE; RESOURCE VALUATION;

BUSINESS PROCESSES; CUSTOMER SERVICE; RESOURCE BASED ASSERTION;

STRATEGIC PLANNING;

EID: 0347528597     PISSN: 01432095     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/smj.366     Document Type: Review

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