Generalizing About Uniqueness
- 1 June 2006
- journal article
- Published by SAGE Publications in Journal of Management Inquiry
- Vol. 15 (2) , 124-134
- https://doi.org/10.1177/1056492606287793
Abstract
Firm-idiosyncratic resources are at the heart of the resource-based view. A hallmark of empirical research findings supporting or falsifying a theory is generalizability. Generalizability demands that research findings are not idiosyncratic to the firm or sample of firms studied. The author develops a typology for mapping the apparently paradoxical relationship between resource idiosyncrasy and generalizability of research findings. Implications for empirical work are then deduced to advance our understanding of the resource-based “view” as a theory.Keywords
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