International Journal of Operations & Production Management: Volume 23 Issue 9

Operations strategy and performance: a resource‐based perspective

Michael Bourne, John Mills, Norman Faull

This paper introduces the special issue on “Operations strategy and performance: a resource‐based perspective”. It assesses recent and current trends in operations strategy and…

Strategic planning and firms' competencies: Traditional approaches and new perspectives

Alberto De Toni, Stefano Tonchia

The traditional strategic model of industrial organization is criticized by the upholders of the theories that regard the resources and competencies of a firm as the source of its…

Competence and resource architectures

John Mills, Ken Platts, Mike Bourne

This paper aims to produce a justified, generic, pictorial architecture of the relationships between resources and competences within firms. It begins by providing definitions of…

Use of resource‐based view in industrial cluster strategic analysis

Eduardo de Oliveira Wilk, Jaime Evaldo Fensterseifer

The resource‐based view of the firm has recently emerged as a new paradigm in strategic analysis. According to this view, firms are heterogeneous collections of resources that…

A real options approach to managing resources and capabilities

Krsto Pandza, Stuart Horsburgh, Kevin Gorton, Andrej Polajnar

The resource‐based view (RBV) and the dynamic‐capabilities approach (DCA) have emerged as two important frameworks in strategic management that seek to explain why firms are…

Organizing new product development: Knowledge hollowing‐out and knowledge integration – the FIAT Auto case

Markus C. Becker, Francesco Zirpoli

The paper analyses the organization of the new product development process at FIAT from a resource‐based perspective. The focus is on organizational resources for integrating…

An exploratory analysis of resource utilization across organizational units: Understanding the resource‐based view

Stewart R. Miller, Anthony D. Ross

This study explores the applicability of the resource‐based view at the organizational unit level by investigating why resource utilization, as measured by efficiency, might…

Supply‐chain linkages and operational performance: A resource‐based‐view perspective

M. Rungtusanatham, F. Salvador, C. Forza, T.Y. Choi

In order to improve performance at the operational level, more and more firms are developing explicit linkages with suppliers and with customers. While the question of “what…