The resource-based view (RBV) of the firm suggests that strategic deployment of capabilities allows strategic business units (SBUs) to exploit distinctive competencies and create sustainable competitive advantage. Following the RBV, we propose a new predictive methodology for deriving typologies...

The authors present a new measurement methodology of perceived value, based on latent structure multidimensional scaling, that derives simultaneously the underlying dimensions of the perceived value of various brands and market segment heterogeneity in terms of how such value evaluations are...