Can competitive advantage be predicted?: Towards a predictive definition of competitive advantage in the resource-based view of the firm

Management Decision

Volumn 51, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 795-812

  Hinterhuber, Andreas ^a  

^a Hinterhuber and Partners Innsbruck Austria and USI Lugano   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Competitive advantage; Corporate strategy; Customer needs; Market orientation; No rules for riches; Organizations; Predictability; Resource based view

Indexed keywords

EID: 84878235652     PISSN: 00251747     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/00251741311326572     Document Type: Review

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