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Resource-Based View Theory

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Resource-based view (RBV) theory has been discussed in strategic ­management and Information Systems (IS) for many years. Although many ­extensions and elaborations of RBV have been published over the years, to a considerable extent, most of them have identified critical resources and investigated the impact of resources on competitive advantage and/or other organization issues such as corporative environmental performance, profitability, and strategic alliance. Nevertheless, the orchestration of resources seems to influence these results. There still remains the issue of resource relations in an organization, the internal interaction of resources, especially IT resources with non-IT resources and the process of IT resource interaction with other resources within a firm which we have called resource impressionability. To fill these gaps in IS literature, we propose the new concept of resource orchestration in order to answer resource impressionability issues during implementation of IT projects.

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Abbreviations

CA:

Competitive advantage

IS:

Information system

IT:

Information technology

RBV:

Resource-based view

SCA:

Sustained competitive advantage

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  1. Department of Information Systems, School of Computing, National University of Singapore (NUS), Singapore, 117543, Singapore

    Mahdieh Taher

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    Yogesh K. Dwivedi

  2. IMD, Ch. de Bellerive 23, Lausanne, 1001, Switzerland

    Michael R. Wade

  3. Principia College, Maybeck Place 1, Elsah, 62028, Illinois, USA

    Scott L. Schneberger

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Taher, M. (2012). Resource-Based View Theory. In: Dwivedi, Y., Wade, M., Schneberger, S. (eds) Information Systems Theory. Integrated Series in Information Systems, vol 28. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4419-6108-2_8

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