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Generalizing About Uniqueness

An Essay on an Apparent Paradox in the Resource-Based View

Michael Gibbert

Bocconi University, Italy, michael.gibbert{at}unibocconi.it

Firm-idiosyncratic resources are at the heart of the resource-based view. A hallmark of empirical research findings supporting or falsifying a theory is generalizability. Generalizability demands that research findings are not idiosyncratic to the firm or sample of firms studied. The author develops a typology for mapping the apparently paradoxical relationship between resource idiosyncrasy and generalizability of research findings. Implications for empirical work are then deduced to advance our understanding of the resource-based "view" as a theory.

Key Words: generalizability • idiosyncrasy • resource-based view

Journal of Management Inquiry, Vol. 15, No. 2, 124-134 (2006)
DOI: 10.1177/1056492606287793
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