Everything about Competitive advantage

🧭 Start here: a 6-step reading path

1. Read the overview: Competitive advantageA 5-minute orientation
2. Skim a recent paper: Artificial intelligence and the changing sources of competitive advantageInfluential work since 2022
3. Pick up a classic book: The Competitive Advantage of GreeceThe most-reprinted book on the subject
4. Read the landmark paper: Firm Resources and Sustained Competitive AdvantageCited 39,549 times
5. Go sideways: Marketing strategyA closely related topic
6. Go sideways: HypercompetitionA closely related topic

🏆 Landmark papers (most cited)

• Firm Resources and Sustained Competitive Advantage

  Jay Barney · 1991 · Journal of Management · 39,549 citations

• The Relational View: Cooperative Strategy and Sources of Interorganizational Competitive Advantage

  Jeffrey H. Dyer, Harbir Singh · 1998 · The Academy of Management Review · 34,159 citations

• The cornerstones of competitive advantage: A resource‐based view

  Margaret A. Peteraf · 1993 · Strategic Management Journal · 6,623 citations

• The Resource-Based Theory of Competitive Advantage: Implications for Strategy Formulation

  Robert M. Grant · 1991 · California Management Review · 5,605 citations

• Asset Stock Accumulation and Sustainability of Competitive Advantage

  Ingemar Dierickx, Karel Cool · 1989 · Management Science · 5,311 citations

• Causal Ambiguity, Barriers to Imitation, and Sustainable Competitive Advantage

  Richard Reed, Robert J. Defillippi · 1990 · The Academy of Management Review · 4,523 citations

• Human Resource Systems and Sustained Competitive Advantage: A Competency-Based Perspective

  Augustine A. Lado, Mary C. Wilson · 1994 · The Academy of Management Review · 3,825 citations

• Assessing Advantage: A Framework for Diagnosing Competitive Superiority

  George S. Day, Robin Wensley · 1988 · Journal of Marketing · 3,787 citations

🆕 Influential since 2022

• Artificial intelligence and the changing sources of competitive advantage

  Sebastian Krakowski, Johannes Luger, Sebastian Raisch · 2022 · Strategic Management Journal · 596 citations

• Business Strategies and Competitive Advantage: The Role of Performance and Innovation

  Ida Farida, Doddy Setiawan · 2022 · Journal of Open Innovation: Technology, Market, and Complexity · 389 citations

• The resource‐based view, stakeholder capitalism, ESG, and sustainable competitive advantage: The firm's embeddedness into ecology, society, and governance

  Krishna Raj Bhandari, Mikko Ranta, Jari Salo · 2022 · Business Strategy and the Environment · 318 citations

• Competitive Advantage Through Artificial Intelligence: Toward a Theory of Situated AI

  Ayenda Kemp · 2024 · Academy of Management Review · 308 citations

• Open innovation and sustainable competitive advantage: The role of organizational learning

  Xiaobin Zhang, Zhaofang Chu, Lei Ren · 2023 · Technological Forecasting and Social Change · 221 citations

📚 Books worth reading

• The Competitive Advantage of GreeceIoannis Konsolas · 2002
• Varieties of CapitalismPeter A. Hall, David W. Soskice · 2001
• The competitive advantage of industrial districtsMichele Bagella, Leonardo Becchetti · 2000
• Competing against timeGeorge Stalk · 1990
• On competitionMichael E. Porter · 1998
• Strategic ManagementAdapted by Reed Kennedy, with Eli Jamison · 2020
• International high-technology competitionF. M. Scherer · 1992
• Competitiveness in the food industryEamonn Pitts, W. Bruce Traill · 1991

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