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Measures of a Valuable Resource
Valuable Resource
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What happened?
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This characteristic, by definition, cannot be copied.
Physical Uniqueness
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What is the purpose of the Test of Substitutability
To measure whether a unique resource can be trumped by a different resource.
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What does RBV stands for?
Resources-based view
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Why must an effective corporate strategy require continual investment in folder to maintain and build valuable resources?
All resources depreciate
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Which company dominates the LCD business?
SHARP
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Resources are unique because of its maturity process
Path Dependency
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What do you have to do to measure the length of a resource’s life?
Test of Durability
200
Explain RBV
RBV is the way to analysis company internally and also externally.
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How does a company upgrade their resources?
Adding new resources, upgrading to alternative resources, move into a more attractive industry
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What was one of Michael Eisner’s first actions as CEO of Disney?
Invested $50 million in Who Framed Roger Rabbit.
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This characteristic makes it impossible to disentangle either what the valuable resource is or how to re-create it.
Causal Ambiguity
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This test measures the ability of a resource to be replicated.
Test of Inimitability
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Three forms of a valuable resource
Tangible, Intangible, Organizational Capability
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What is the most successful way of upgrading resources?
Adding new competencies over an extended period of time
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What resource of Gerber is near impossible for a competitor to imitate?
Brand loyalty
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What is the act when a company preempts a competitor by making a sizable investment in an asset?
Economic Deterrence
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What is the key to identifying competitively superior resources?
Disaggregation of corporation’s resources.
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What makes a resource valuable?
Scarcity, Demand, Appropriability
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What is the act when resources contribute to competitive advantages or compete in new markets that improve the corporate resources?
leveraging resources
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Which company had a time period known as its “lost decade” when it was overtaken by a competitor.
Xerox
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The motive of these organizations is to replicate successful technology.
Crash R&D Programs
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Under what circumstances that competitive imitators may choose not to duplicate the resource?
When market is too small to support two players the size of the incumbent profitably.
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What are the five characteristics of RBV?
1) they’re difficulty to copy. 2) they depreciate slowly. 3) your company- not employees, suppliers, or customers. 4) they can’t be easily substitutes. 5) they’re superior to similar resources your competitors own.
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What are the three common mistakes made when leveraging resources?
Overestimating the transferability of specific assets and capabilities, overestimating their ability to compete in highly profitable industries, assuming that leveraging generic material will be a competitive advantage
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Which company mentioned in the reading failed to enter a new market? Why?
Marks & Spencer.
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