TY - JOUR
T1 - Resource longevity and the 'pull' of existing organizational paths
T2 - Strategic adjustment and response by UK producers to a new international division of labour in the ceramic tableware sector
AU - Lambert, Neil J.
PY - 2014
Y1 - 2014
N2 - This article presents the findings from a study that explores the implications of a new international division of labour in the ceramic tableware sector for UK producers. Many UK producers have struggled over recent years to adapt to changing competitive and market conditions in the sector. The findings suggest that strategy choice and success for UK producers during the period of interest (1996-2008) has not been exorable and homogenous. Instead, past actions, events and outcomes, as well as the 'pull' of existing organizational paths, appear to have influenced past capability selection and accumulation decisions, shaping the historically conditioned, rent-generatin g competencies upon which case study firms had based their respective responses to changes in competitive and market conditions. This has increasingly conditioned two distinctive focal action patterns within the sample, each, seemingly, presenting its own respective 'lock in' effects.
AB - This article presents the findings from a study that explores the implications of a new international division of labour in the ceramic tableware sector for UK producers. Many UK producers have struggled over recent years to adapt to changing competitive and market conditions in the sector. The findings suggest that strategy choice and success for UK producers during the period of interest (1996-2008) has not been exorable and homogenous. Instead, past actions, events and outcomes, as well as the 'pull' of existing organizational paths, appear to have influenced past capability selection and accumulation decisions, shaping the historically conditioned, rent-generatin g competencies upon which case study firms had based their respective responses to changes in competitive and market conditions. This has increasingly conditioned two distinctive focal action patterns within the sample, each, seemingly, presenting its own respective 'lock in' effects.
KW - Ceramic tableware
KW - Competitive advantage
KW - Path dependence
KW - Resource-based theory
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=84896932516&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1179/1024529414Z.00000000052
DO - 10.1179/1024529414Z.00000000052
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:84896932516
SN - 1024-5294
VL - 18
SP - 131
EP - 149
JO - COMPETITION AND CHANGE
JF - COMPETITION AND CHANGE
IS - 2
ER -