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McEvily, Susan Kacska.

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Competitive advantage from technological knowledge: A resource-based investigation of factors that explain persistence.

Record Type:	Language materials, printed : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Competitive advantage from technological knowledge: A resource-based investigation of factors that explain persistence./
Author:	McEvily, Susan Kacska.
Description:	178 p.
Notes:	Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 60-02, Section: A, page: 0359.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International60-02A.
Subject:	Business Administration, General. -
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=9918171
ISBN:	9780599171466

Competitive advantage from technological knowledge: A resource-based investigation of factors that explain persistence.
McEvily, Susan Kacska.

Competitive advantage from technological knowledge: A resource-based investigation of factors that explain persistence. - 178 p.

Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 60-02, Section: A, page: 0359.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Minnesota, 1999.

This thesis investigates whether and how characteristics of technological knowledge explain variation in the persistence of a firm's product performance advantages. In order to test our hypotheses, we developed an instrument to measure three attributes of technological knowledge: complexity, tacitness, and specificity, and collected data within the adhesives industry. We found that the complexity and tacitness of technological knowledge prolongs performance advantages from new products; however, specificity is associated with less persistence. By contrast, firms with more tacit knowledge find it difficult to sustain advantages from existing products, while specificity is associated with greater persistence. Complexity has no significant effect on a firm's ability to sustain advantages from existing products.

ISBN: 9780599171466Subjects--Topical Terms:

1017457
Business Administration, General.

Competitive advantage from technological knowledge: A resource-based investigation of factors that explain persistence.
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520 $a This thesis investigates whether and how characteristics of technological knowledge explain variation in the persistence of a firm's product performance advantages. In order to test our hypotheses, we developed an instrument to measure three attributes of technological knowledge: complexity, tacitness, and specificity, and collected data within the adhesives industry. We found that the complexity and tacitness of technological knowledge prolongs performance advantages from new products; however, specificity is associated with less persistence. By contrast, firms with more tacit knowledge find it difficult to sustain advantages from existing products, while specificity is associated with greater persistence. Complexity has no significant effect on a firm's ability to sustain advantages from existing products.
520 $a This study contributes to the strategic management literature by providing evidence on the validity of a core, but largely untested proposition of resource-based theory: that inimitable resources, rather than market entry barriers, often explain the persistence of superior financial performance. Our findings both support and qualify the resource-based logic. In addition, we begin to resolve a tension that exists between resource-based theory and research on dynamic capabilities and product development. Whereas resource-based theory associates complexity, tacitness, and specificity with imitation barriers, the dynamic capabilities literature suggests that the opposite attributes enable firms to sustain advantages by learning faster than competitors. Our study suggests that both arguments apply, but under different conditions. Finally, resource-based theory highlights knowledge as a particularly attractive source of competitive advantage. Yet, knowledge is rarely measured and related to a firm's performance advantage. This study presents a method of measuring knowledge that is directly linked to the performance outcomes a firm seeks to compete on.
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