CARMELI, Abraham <br/><br/>
Assessing Core Intangible Resources 

 - Oxford :  Elsevier,  February 2004 
<br/><br/> This study aims at introducing a framework by which scholars and practioners may investigate a firm's profile of resources. The framework, labeled as 'Strategic Analysis Technique'(SAT), is an endeavor to better understand the firms' core resources (i.e., most valuable,rare, inimitable and nonsubstitutable) that generate sustainable competitive advantage and lead to superior performance. The recource profile of growing public firms in Israel was examined and compared with slow-growing firms. The results of this examination illustrated the framework. The studyalso sheds light on one of the most difficult challenges the drivers of sustainable competitive advantage