Bernie controversy
Jay Barney (1991)
Proposition 1: When a firm's management resources (resources) are valuable and scarce, the firm gains a competitive advantage.
Proposition 2: A firm gains a sustainable competitive advantage when its resources are not imitable or substitutable by others.
Richard Prim, John Butler (2001)
Pointed out that the meaning of the phrase "competitive edge" in Proposition 1 is unclear. If "competitive advantage" is defined as "higher value than other companies" or "scarcity
When a company's resources are valuable and scarce, it acquires 'something valuable and scarce.'"
Pointing out that this is a tautology.
Jay Barney (2001)
tautology, arguing that it is immaterial whether the words can be replaced to become Claims that if empirical research can be done, it doesn't matter, and empirical research has been done.
Richard Prim, John Butler (2001)
Argues that problems arising in the world of theory should be solved in the world of theory
Argues that the idea that there is no problem if empirical research can be done is false.
nishio.iconIn the world of theory, when a theory is established that "if X is X', then X'", it is natural that correlation should appear when real data A corresponding to X and real data B corresponding to X' are taken to show correlation because the original theory is almost a tautology.
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