The current paper explores the use of the Resource-Based View in the analysis of the firm boundary decision. It is proposed that resources that are valuable, rare, imperfectly imitable and non-substitutable are those that have the least likelihood of being outsourced. This proposition is tested...

The independence of expert evaluators in finance, advocated by financial theory, does not resist sociological investigation. The proximity of knowledge and expertise and collusion of interests of evaluators and evaluated people are attributable to the origin of financial firms considered, the...