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Strategy Is About Both Resources and Positioning

Harvard Business Review

Anyone taking the time to delve into the literature of strategy quickly realizes that there are two fiercely opposed camps. In the red corner we have the “ positioning school ” (TPS) and in the white we have the “ resource-based view of the firm ” (RBV). Strategies for staying ahead. Insight Center.

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When a Spinoff Makes Strategic Sense

Harvard Business Review

Yet although the lay observer can understand the reasons for these corporate break-ups, the frameworks and ideas that underpin strategy theory are actually pretty unhelpful when considering whether or not to initiate a break-up. So how does RBV explain the decision to split the company into two?

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The More Experience You Have, the Worse You Are at Bootstrapping

Harvard Business Review

Academics have been writing about the Resource-Based View (RBV) — a theory of how companies can gain competitive advantage from their unique and valuable resources — since the 1980s, though the idea has been around for longer.

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