Tautology, Managerial Relevance, and Predictive Power of the RBV: The Neglected Content Dimension of Organizational Capabilities
This study examines “capabilities” in the conceptual and empirical literatures, to reveal whether indeterminateness of value is a problem within RBV, as suggested by the recent tautology debate. Conceptual studies typically relate to capabilities in terms of the desired ends of their use, whereas empirical studies conceptualize capabilities as composite constructs with desired ends and content-ori