As emphasized by Barney (1986), any explanation of superior profitability must account for why the resources supporting such profitability could have been acquired for a price below their rent generating capacity. Building upon the literature in economics on coordination failures and incomplete markets, we suggest a framework for analyzing such strategic factor market inefficiencies. Our point ...

R esearchers have argued that human resources may be seen as a source of sustained competitive advantage for organizations (Barney, 1991, 1995; Becker & Gerhart, 1996). The underlying assumption is that human resources are unique to the extent that competitors cannot imitate them. This research has led to the identification of a number of human resource management practices that contribute to c...

objective: the main purpose of present research was to identify strategic factors influencing to the development of digital libraries in iran.method: research method of this study is grounded theory, which we use systematic method. the study sample consisted of professionals and experts in the field of digital library, and semi-structured interviews used to collect data to achieve theoretical s...

Abstract Despite an increasing number of studies identifying factors that influence the internationalization process for early internationalizing firms (EIFs), it remains unclear which these numerous could play a strategic role and, more specifically, when. This paper develops new conceptual framework anchored in resource-based view to identify resources can explain EIFs’ accurately over time. ...