I seek to explain cases whereby locationally advantageous countries do not give rise to internationally competitive national firms, as theory suggests. Rather, foreign firms enjoy equal access to the country resources and build strong competitive position based on them. I suggest that location...

Researchers in corporate strategy have long argued that resource “relatedness” contributes to a firm's competitive advantage. One implication is that entries made by a firm into businesses that are closely related to the firm's existing businesses should have higher survival rates than...

This paper discusses an extension of the classical resource-constrained project scheduling problem (RCPSP) in which the resource availability as well as the resource request of the activities may change from period to period. While the applicability of this extension should be obvious, we...

Das vorliegende Research Paper geht auf die Notwendigkeit der Integration externer Ressourcen in den ressourcenbasierten Ansatz ein, um dann den relationalen Ansatz und seine Integration in den ressourcenbasierten Ansatz darzustellen: Der relationale Ansatz von Dyer und Singh (1998) kombiniert...

We use and extend resource-dependence theory by analyzing how loosely-coupled organizational structures facilitate the management of political ties by business groups in emerging economies. This topic is particularly salient because business groups are a prevalent organizational form in these...