...Chris Raddats; Judy Zolkiewski; Vicky Mary Story; Jamie Burton; Tim Baines; Ali Ziaee Bigdeli Purpose The purpose of this paper is to challenge the focal firm perspective of much resource/capability research, identifying how a dyadic perspective facilitates identification of capabilities required...

..., which do not meet the CoPS classification criteria defined above, for example, chemicals and metals (Ren and Yeo, 2006). The paper is structured to first present a theoretical framework (Section 2). This draws on resource-based theory (Barney, 1991 ; Hunt et al., 2006). The framework...

...Taco van der Vaart; Dirk Pieter van Donk Purpose Buyer‐focused operations aim at a high level of supply chain alignment by singling out resources for one buyer in order to serve this buyer optimally. The purpose of this paper is to identify what business characteristics make suppliers choose buyer...

... is that TCT is a theory based on the transaction process of firms, and sees the firm operating in a cost driven environment. RBV, however, sees the firm as a basis for competitive advantage and attempts to understand how the firm can achieve this through the combining of its capabilities and resources...

...Loi Teck Hui A compressed cycle time enables products to be manufactured more quickly and has the potential of locking in the most profitable customer. Applies time‐based process mapping (TBPM), a time compression technique, to a firm that operates in a resource‐based environment, and undertake...

...John Mills; Ken Platts; Mike Bourne This paper aims to produce a justified, generic, pictorial architecture of the relationships between resources and competences within firms. It begins by providing definitions of the nature, scope and relationships between resources, capabilities and competences...

...Alberto De Toni; Stefano Tonchia The traditional strategic model of industrial organization is criticized by the upholders of the theories that regard the resources and competencies of a firm as the source of its competitive advantage. This article presents these new strategic dictates...

... for a firm” has been addressed in numerous studies, the equally important question of “why” this beneficial impact arises deserves further discourse and explication. This paper borrows and applies the Resource‐Based View of the Firm, a theoretical perspective prevalent in the strategic management literature...

...Markus C. Becker; Francesco Zirpoli The paper analyses the organization of the new product development process at FIAT from a resource‐based perspective. The focus is on organizational resources for integrating dispersed specialist knowledge required in the development of complex products...

...Krsto Pandza; Stuart Horsburgh; Kevin Gorton; Andrej Polajnar The resource‐based view (RBV) and the dynamic‐capabilities approach (DCA) have emerged as two important frameworks in strategic management that seek to explain why firms are different. In recent years operations management scholars have...

...Stewart R. Miller; Anthony D. Ross This study explores the applicability of the resource‐based view at the organizational unit level by investigating why resource utilization, as measured by efficiency, might differ within a firm. Using a downstream petroleum firm as the context for this study...

...Michael Bourne; John Mills; Norman Faull This paper introduces the special issue on “Operations strategy and performance: a resource‐based perspective”. It assesses recent and current trends in operations strategy and performance management and points out that, although developments in resource...

...Eduardo de Oliveira Wilk; Jaime Evaldo Fensterseifer The resource‐based view of the firm has recently emerged as a new paradigm in strategic analysis. According to this view, firms are heterogeneous collections of resources that lead them to distinct market performance. This paper uses...

... have used the resource‐based view. It is often suggested that the incorporation of resource‐based view ideas into the field of operations strategy is a search for a new paradigm, yet the ever‐increasing literature suffers from a lack of empirical research. Moreover, operations strategy research from...

... model of competence as a transformation process, combining resource and activity inputs into operational processes that result in specific competitive performance outcomes. Empirical evidence from three aerospace manufacturing case studies offers an opportunity to explore the conceptual and practical...

...John Mills; Ken Platts; Michael Bourne This paper describes research on the resources that underlie a manufacturing company’s service competence in its most established product group. Published methods for identifying and assessing resources are reviewed and, based on current theory, improvements...

...John E. Ettlie; Kannan Sethuraman Interest in supply chain management has been escalating during the last decade. Using a large sample of durable goods firms located in all major regions of the world, we extend two theoretical perspectives, namely the resource‐based view and the transaction cost...

...Stéphane Gagnon Argues that operations strategy research should integrate recent theories from the resource‐based view of strategic management. Going beyond the model of Hayes and Wheelwright, this would call for the end of the market‐based view, where operations strategy merely follows...

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