Jay B. Barney

Firm Resources and Sustained Competitive Advantage

Understanding sources of sustained competitive advantage has become a major area of research in strategic management. Building on the assumptions that strategic resources are he...

Strategic Factor Markets: Expectations, Luck, and Business Strategy

Much of the current thinking about competitive strategy focuses on ways that firms can create imperfectly competitive product markets in order to obtain greater than normal econ...

Returns to bidding firms in mergers and acquisitions: Reconsidering the relatedness hypothesis

Recent work has suggested that mergers or acquisitions between strategically related firms will generate abnormal returns for shareholders of bidding firms. Empirical evidence o...

Asset Stocks and Sustained Competitive Advantage: A Comment

In their paper, Dierickx and Cool suggest that the strategic factor markets model developed in Barney (Barney, J. B. 1986a. Strategic factor markets: Expectations, luck, and bus...

The Debate Between Traditional Management Theory and Organizational Economics: Substantive Differences or Intergroup Conflict?

Donaldson's (1990) critique of organizational economics suggests four attributes of this model that make intellectual discourse and theoretical integration with traditional mana...

Trustworthiness as a Source of Competitive Advantage

Organizational Culture: Can It Be a Source of Sustained Competitive Advantage?

Three attributes that a firm's culture must have to generate sustained competitive advantages are isolated. Previous findings suggest that the cultures of some firms have these ...

Firm resources and sustained competitive advantage

Understanding sources of sustained competitive advantage has become a major area of research in strategic management. Building on the assumptions that strategic resources are he...