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International Business - Chapter 4
Mike Peng and Klaus Meyer
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Business
Post-Graduate
01/10/2014

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Resource-based view
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A leading perceptive in global business that posits that firm performance is fundamentally driven by firm-specific resources
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Primary resources
Definition
The tangible and intangible assets as well as human resources that a firm uses to choose and implement its strategies
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Capability
Definition
Firm-specific abilities to use resources to achieve organisational objectives
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Tangible assets
Definition
Assets that are observable and easily quantified
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Intangible assets
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Assets that are hard to observe and difficult( or sometimes impossible) to quantify
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Human resources
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Resources embedded in individuals working in an organisation.
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Organisational culture
Definition
Employees' shared values, traditions and social norms within an organisation
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Value chain
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A chain of activities vertically related in the production of goods and services
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VRIO framework
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The resource-based framework that focus on the value creation,rarity,imitability and organisational aspect of resources
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Casual ambiguity
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The difficulty of identifying the casual determinants of successful firm performance.
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Social complexity
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The socially complex way of organising typical of many firm
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Appropriability
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The ability of the firm to appropriate the values for itself
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Benchmarking
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An examination of resources to perform a particular activity compared against competitors
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Outsourcing
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Turning over an organisational activity to an outside supplier that will perform it on behalf of the firm.
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Offshoring
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Move an activity to a location abroad
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Offshore outsourcing
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Outsourcing to another firm doing the activity abroad
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Domestic outsourcing
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Outsourcing to a firm in the same country
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Captive offshoring
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Setting up subsidiaries abroad- the work done in-house but the location is foreign
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Nearshoring
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Offshore to a nearby location eg. within EU
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Original equipment manufacturer(OEM)
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A firm that executes the designs blueprints provided by other firms and manufactures such products
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Original design manufacturers(ODM)
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A firm that both designs and manufactures products
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Original brand manufacturers(OBM)
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A firm that designs, manufactures and market branded products
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