Firm Resources and Sustained Competitive Advantage

This paper elucidates the underlying economics of the resource-based view of competitive advantage and integrates existing perspectives into a parsimonious model of resources and firm performance. The essence of this model is that four conditions underlie sustained competitive advantage, all of which must be met. These include superior resources (heterogeneity within an industry), ex post limits to competition, imperfect resource mobility, and ex ante limits to competition. In the concluding section, applications of the model for both single business strategy and corporate strategy are discussed.

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The cornerstones of competitive advantage: A resource‐based view

Theory of International Politics

The External Control of Organizations.

This article reviews some of the criticisms directed towards the eclectic paradigm of international production over the past decade, and restates its main tenets. The second part of the article considers a number of possible extensions of the paradigm and concludes by asserting that it remains “a robust general framework for explaining and analysing not only the economic rationale of economic production but many organisational and impact issues in relation to MNE activity as well.”

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The Eclectic Paradigm of International Production: A Restatement and Some Possible Extensions

Barriers to New Competition, Their Character and Consequences in Manufacturing Industries

Pricing, Distribution, and Employment

a significant influence on industrial price policies. The emergence of concentrated market structures seemed to be in a large part a technological necessity which the Act would, under any enforcement policy, have been unable to check; whatever its causes, concentration was now a fait accompli almost impossible to eradicate. That the Act should be unable to influence price policies within this concentrated market structure seemed

Joe S. Bain

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Barriers to New Competition, Their Character and Consequences in Manufacturing Industries

Pricing, Distribution, and Employment

The Sherman Act and “The Bottlenecks of Business”

The Economics of the Pacific Coast Petroleum Industry, Part 2

The Economics of the Pacific Coast Petroleum Industry: Part I: Market Structure