The Resource-Based View and The Concept of Value: The Role of Emergence in Value Creation

• Autores: Luis Armando Luján Salazar
• Localización: Mercados y Negocios: Revista de Investigación y y Análisis, ISSN 1665-7039, ISSN-e 2594-0163, Nº. 35 (enero-junio), 2017, págs. 27-46
• Idioma: inglés
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  • This theoretical paper deals with the concept of value. It asserts that value is the only and necessary condition in the resource-based view (RBV). It also argues that no resource or strategy is valuable per se: it is related to a configuration of resources, routines, and embedded assets. For example, concerning the RBV attribute of imitation, we can ask to what extent a valuable resource is independent of the rest of resources, and by extension, to what extent a configuration of resources is rare by itself. This paper discusses the emergence of value and it is embeddedness in a configuration of resources. Revising the concept of value could challenge the other main conditions in the RBV: rarity and cost of imitation, impossibility to replace with strategic substitutes. If the relations of these attributes with the rest of the resources are taken into account, we might have a better understanding of how value emerges and how a firm’s resources and capabilities are related with the creation of value.