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Resource Allocation as an Outcropping of Strategic Consistency: Performance Implications

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Similarities in financial resource allocations across the lines of business of diversified firms may indicate corporate strategic consistency, which may lead to superior corporate performance as discussed by the authors. But, as discussed in Section 2.
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Similarities in financial resource allocations across the lines of business of diversified firms may indicate corporate strategic consistency, which may lead to superior corporate performance. In s...

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The Relationship Between R&D Spending Instability and a Firm’s Performance

TL;DR: In this article, it is argued that an increased fluctuation of a firm's R&D expense is related to a reduced financial performance, which can be caused by many reasons, some of them outside the firm's control.
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Performance of Ghanaian women businesses community: the moderating role of social competence

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors investigate the moderating dynamics of social competence in the relationship between intangible resources and the performance of women businesses from an emerging market context, and they find that social competence is important to women businesses as it influences the outcome of entrepreneurial interactions and communications.

Un análisis de la evolución de la banca mediana española a través de la teoría de los recursos y capacidades y el análisis del entorno

TL;DR: In this article, the comportamiento de la estrategia de negocio de la banca mediana espanola and concretamente of los siguientes bancos: Banco Popular, Banesto, Banco Sabadell, Bankinter and Banco Pastor, with the aim of establecer their modelo de crecimiento in the ultimos anos.
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Firm Resources and Sustained Competitive Advantage

TL;DR: In this article, the authors examined the link between firm resources and sustained competitive advantage and analyzed the potential of several firm resources for generating sustained competitive advantages, including value, rareness, imitability, and substitutability.
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A Resource-Based View of the Firm

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors explore the usefulness of analyzing firms from the resource side rather than from the product side, in analogy to entry barriers and growth-share matrices, the concepts of resource position barrier and resource-product matrices are suggested.

Competitive advantage: creating and sustaining superior performance

M.E. Ponter
TL;DR: Porter's concept of the value chain disaggregates a company into "activities", or the discrete functions or processes that represent the elemental building blocks of competitive advantage as discussed by the authors, has become an essential part of international business thinking, taking strategy from broad vision to an internally consistent configuration of activities.
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The theory of the growth of the firm

Edith Penrose
TL;DR: In this article, the authors studied the role of large and small firms in a growing economy and found that large firms are more likely to acquire and merge smaller firms in order to increase their size.