On the utilization of resources: Perspectives from the US telecommunications industry

• 成果类型: Article
• 署名作者: Majumdar, SK
• 署名单位: Imperial College London
• 刊物名称: STRATEGIC MANAGEMENT JOURNAL
• ISSN/ISSBN: 0143-2095
• DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1097-0266(199809)19:9<809::AID-SMJ969>3.0.CO;2-U
• 发表日期: 1998
• 页码: 809-831
• 关键词: resource-based approach; resource utilization; theory of the firm; date envelopment analysis; strategic benchmarking; telecommunications industry

摘要

The issue of resource utilization is important in the resource-based stream of work, since the ability of firms to utilize resources is a key indicator of their competitive abilities. This paper specifies,why some firms might be better at utilizing resources than others. Thereafter, it demonstrates how to empirically ascertain differences in resource utilization patterns between firms using the U.S. telecommunications industry as a context. The data envelopment analysis procedure (DEA), which is a firm-level resource utilization measure, is used. This procedure can be useful for the resource-based approach research agenda since performance is measured in resource terms. DEA is applied to measure variations in different dimensions of resource utilization for the firms making up the local operating sector of the telecommunications industry. The rue of DEA to guide empirical research and address theoretical issues within the resource-based paradigm is illustrated, using the resource utilization index for the telecommunications firms as the measure of strategic performance. (C) 1998 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.