AFUAH, Allan

Mapping technological capabilities into product markets and competitive advantage : the case of cholesterol drugs - 2002

While a lot of attention has been paid to those characteristics of capabilities that give firms a competitive advantage, a lot less attention has been given to supporting empirical evidence and to the deployment of these capabilities. This paper presents a model for mapping firm capabilities into customer value and competitive advantage in different markets. With empirical evidence from cholesterol drugs, I illustrate how he model can be used to estimate customer value and competitive advantage from technological capabilities


Technological Capabilities
Competitive Advantage
Hedonics