Limitations of Resource Based View of the Firm




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Andrey Mazkun, United Kingdom

Limitations of Resource Based View of the Firm

What are the limitations of RBV? Can anyone clearly explain it? Thanks.
 

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Christos Papadimas
Manager, Canada
 

Limitations of RBV

One limitation of the RBV theory is based on the inability to compile an empirical study to measure performance. Due to the heterogeneity of the companies, it is hard to impossible to compile a homogeneous sample.
Furthermore, the RBV does not consider the demand side of the market. A company might have the resources and capabilities to produce competitively but who is the customer/consumer?

 
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Warren D. Miller, CPA, CFA
Strategy Consultant, United States
 

Limitation of RBV

The limitation of the RBV is that it's applied on an entity-specific basis. Therefore, it is not generalizable.

 
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Maryam Bidmeshgipour
Student (Other), Malaysia
 

Limitation of RBV

I agree with Warren on this limitation of RBV. As a result there is still no generalized tool that is able to measure it.

 
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Warren D. Miller, CPA, CFA
Strategy Consultant, United States
 

Limitations of RBV

I respectfully disagree, Maryam. There is a tool that can measure capabilities, whose development is central to deploying the RBV. That tool is Jay Barney's VRINO (valuable, rare, inimitable, non-substitutable, organizationally aligned) framework.
Asking five questions (one for each letter in the acronym) will help gauge the durability of a capability and also its staying power against other capabilities in the competitive domain (industry or strategic group). I use it all the time, and it is powerful.

 
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Emad Hassan
consultant, Egypt
 

Limitation of RBV

The main limitation, from my perspective, is that RBV is an endogenous based methodology which puts ... Sign up

 
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Warren D. Miller, CPA, CFA
Strategy Consultant, United States
 

Limitations of RBV

Emad, I'm not sure about what you mean with "endogenous" and "exogenous" in this context, so let me ... Sign up

 
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Emad Hassan
consultant, Egypt
 

Endogenous Value Perspective

Warren, thanks for your comment. What I meant by endogenous is when the “value” attribute of a resou... Sign up

 
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J Iqbal
Professor, Pakistan
 

Generic and Specific Limitations of RBV

All those factors that inhibit implementation or realization of RBV are its limitations. Some of the... Sign up

 
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Michael Park
Strategy Consultant, United States
 

Limitations of RBV

Hi, this discussion, like many things on this site is great, but perhaps getting too theoretical. Th... Sign up

 
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Warren D. Miller, CPA, CFA
Strategy Consultant, United States
 

Limitations of RBV

@Michael: please clarify what you mean by "direction for strategy or execution of plans." thanks in ... Sign up

   

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