A Critique of Competitive Advantage
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Despite its ubiquity, the concept of competitive advantage is surprisingly under-defined. At its worst, it is nothing more than a tautology: successful firms are successful because they have competitive advantage, which in turn cannot be defined in any other way than as a quality that brings about success. Defining the possession in terms of the outcome it produces presents ontological difficulties: both in cases when competitive advantages is posited ex ante and in situations where the chain of causality is contestable.
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