Arbeitspapier

Compositional Advantage and Strategy: Understanding How Resource-Poor Firms Survive and Thrive

In this paper, I first critique the composition-based view of Yadong Luo and John Child for understanding how resource-poor firms survive and thrive. To remedy the deficiencies in their perspective, I then propose a dynamic theory of compositional advantage and strategy. Here, the compositional advantage is redefined as the attractiveness of the composition of the producer's offering in terms of scope and perceived value/price ratio. I identify five ways or basic compositional strategies to improve the value/price ratio. A firm may have an overall compositional strategy that is composed of some or all of the five basic compositional strategies. I argue there are three indispensable key success factors for a composition-based competition, i.e., aspiration (ambition-position asymmetry), attitude (being ALERT), and action (turning asymmetry into advantage). I also discuss the particular relevance of the present theory to understanding Chinese firms. I conclude with managerial implications and suggestions for future research.

Sprache
Englisch

Erschienen in
Series: Copenhagen Discussion Papers ; No. 2016-63

Klassifikation
Wirtschaft
Thema
Composition
Advantage
Strategy
Value/price ratio
Key success factor
Asymmetry
Produktdifferenzierung
Produktmanagement
Erfolgsfaktor
China

Ereignis
Geistige Schöpfung
(wer)
Li, Xin
Ereignis
Veröffentlichung
(wer)
Copenhagen Business School (CBS), Asia Research Centre (ARC)
(wo)
Frederiksberg
(wann)
2016

Handle
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Objekttyp

  • Arbeitspapier

Beteiligte

  • Li, Xin
  • Copenhagen Business School (CBS), Asia Research Centre (ARC)

Entstanden

  • 2016

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