Over the past two decades, the resource-based view of the firm (RBV) has emerged as one of the more influential paradigms from the field of strategic management. However, the theory has been subjected to a number of criticisms, particularly related to the use of methodologies in past research....

"Globalization, Technology Transformation, and Entrepreneurship," Proceedings of the 2005 Academy of International Business Northeast Conference. Edited by Dr. Raj G. Javalgi. Held at Nance College of Business Administration, Cleveland State University: Cleveland, Ohio: 6-8 October 2005.

This research considers the question “Does it Pay to be Green?” which has been debated by forest industry practitioners and scholars for several decades. It was the same question that I encountered from time to time during my work with local industries and communities in the Asia-Pacific...

Society's concern over the negative impact of business activities on the naturalenvironment has significantly increased and, as a result, environmental regulationshave grown considerably both in number and scope. As these policies affectbusinesses and their competitive environment, firms are...

The return that organizations derive from investments in information systems and technologycontinues to disappoint. While there are many theoretical prescriptions as to how theplanned benefits from an IT project might best be realized, there is very little empiricalevidence, as to whether such...

The aim of this thesis is to examine the way in which civil airlines exploit theirresources in order to gain and sustain competitive advantage. This is done within theframework of the resource-basedv iew, rather than using the market basedv iew, thoughtwithout of cause presuming to test that...

This article uses accounting concepts to assist the field of strategicmanagement in its search for a theory of value, competitive advantage andsuperior profitability. Specifically, it argues that the resource-based view ofthe firm requires a labour theory of value creation. Using the circuit...