Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 18, 2014

Let’s look at our current dominant strategy theory: the Resource-Based View or RBV, closely associated with Jay Barney. So how does RBV explain the decision to split the company into two? So it is hard to explain this decision using the RBV. You may also have noted that the RBV contains no concept of focus.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 27, 2015

In the red corner we have the “ positioning school ” (TPS) and in the white we have the “ resource-based view of the firm ” (RBV). The main (though not only) criticism it levels at TPS is that for positioning to work, market structures have to be stable—and they are not. Insight Center. Think about it.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 22, 2015

Academics have been writing about the Resource-Based View (RBV) — a theory of how companies can gain competitive advantage from their unique and valuable resources — since the 1980s, though the idea has been around for longer.

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