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Vantagem competitiva: o construto e a métrica

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  • Vasconcelos, Flávio Carvalho de
  • Brito, Luiz Artur Ledur

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Despite ubiquitous in strategy and related fields, the concept of competitive advantage continues to be under debate in the academy still lacking a precise and widely accepted definition. A manifestation of this situation is the current debate about its philosophical grounds, and the questioning of its own existence. This paper offers a constitutive definition that allows an operationalization of the concept and the development of metric for the competitive advantage. This metric is applied to a sample of 2,805 firms in 16 countries, with a total of 13,259 observations. The analysis indicates the occurrence of competitive advantage in 10% to 12% of the firms with a similar percentage showing a competitive disadvantage. It demonstrates that the occurrence of competitive advantage is not a rare event. A statistical test is proposed to verify its statistical significance.

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  • Vasconcelos, Flávio Carvalho de & Brito, Luiz Artur Ledur, 2004. "Vantagem competitiva: o construto e a métrica," RAE - Revista de Administração de Empresas, FGV-EAESP Escola de Administração de Empresas de São Paulo (Brazil), vol. 44(2), April.
    • Handle: RePEc:fgv:eaerae:v:44:y:2004:i:2:a:37604
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