NORMATIVE BARRIERS TO IMITATION: SOCIAL COMPLEXITY OF CORE COMPETENCES IN A MUTUAL FUND INDUSTRY

• 成果类型: Review
• 署名作者: Jonsson, Stefan; Regner, Patrick
• 署名单位: Uppsala University; Stockholm School of Economics
• 刊物名称: STRATEGIC MANAGEMENT JOURNAL
• ISSN/ISSBN: 0143-2095
• DOI: 10.1002/smj.739
• 发表日期: 2009
• 页码: 517-536
• 关键词: resource-based view-sustainability; capability acquisition/strategic factor markets; INSTITUTIONAL THEORY

摘要

Imperfectly imitable resources are central in contemporary analysis of sustainable competitive advantage. While prior work has focused on limitations on the ability to imitate, we argue that it is only a third step in an imitation procedure that also involves the identification of what to imitate and the willingness to imitate. In this study we focus on this last step of unwillingness to imitate due to institutionalized professional norms on product appropriateness. Drawing on institutional theory, we test hypotheses and discuss the complex relationship between institutionalized norms, core competences, and systematic differences in the willingness to imitate. Copyright (C) 2008 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.