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„Strategische Komplementaritäten“ und das Management intangibler Ressourcen

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  • Martin Schneider

    (Institut für Arbeitsrecht und Arbeitsbeziehungen in der Europäischen Gemeinschaft (IAAEG))

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Summary This paper argues that “(strategic) complementarities” can help explain both the potential for and the sustainability of competitive advantages. A number of illustrative examples, taken from the new growth theory, are presented. These reveal that the potential for firm competitive advantage is marked by various economies of scale and scope, which in turn result from R&D spillovers, teamwork effects, and interactions between technology and worker know-how. Since such complementarities are complex and puzzling, and since their exploitation depends on the existence of an organisational culture that fosters co-operation, it is difficult for competitors to imitate competitive advantages. Therefore, these are often sustainable over substantial time periods. Hence, a number of barriers to imitation, which are enumerated, rather than analysed in the “resource-based view of the firm”, can be explained from a single, unifying perspective as outcomes of complementarity.

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  • Martin Schneider, 2001. "„Strategische Komplementaritäten“ und das Management intangibler Ressourcen," Schmalenbach Journal of Business Research, Springer, vol. 53(6), pages 589-604, September.
    • Handle: RePEc:spr:sjobre:v:53:y:2001:i:6:d:10.1007_bf03372660
    DOI: 10.1007/BF03372660
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    • L23 - Industrial Organization - - Firm Objectives, Organization, and Behavior - - - Organization of Production
    • M21 - Business Administration and Business Economics; Marketing; Accounting; Personnel Economics - - Business Economics - - - Business Economics
    • O31 - Economic Development, Innovation, Technological Change, and Growth - - Innovation; Research and Development; Technological Change; Intellectual Property Rights - - - Innovation and Invention: Processes and Incentives

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