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Paper info: An interactive resource analysis of supply chain interdependencies

Title


An interactive resource analysis of supply chain interdependencies

Authors


Lars Huemer
Norwegian School of Management
Norway
Lars Huemer and Xiaobei Wang

Place of Publication


The paper was published at the 34th IMP-conference in Marseille, France in 2018.

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Abstract


Firms are increasingly seen as interdependent entities in both the business network literature and in strategy research. The mainstream resource perspective nevertheless maintains an independent resource perspective focusing on the creation of internal rents. There are therefore few studies that investigate how mainstream understandings of resources fit with the idea of cooperative strategy. That is the ambition of this study, which builds on real time involvement of a logistics network where a start-up, a logistics service provider, tried to create resource bundles in cooperation with external partners. The study contributes with a reinterpretation of the meaning of valuable and rare resource attributes. Moreover, due to different resource interactions, resource bundles made of non-superior resources may also lead to the creation of relational rents.