A Resource-Based Strategy

Multiple Choice

A resource-based strategy

A) is often based on cross-department combinations of intellectual capital and expertise.
B) uses a company's valuable and rare resources and competitive capabilities to deliver value to customers that rivals have difficulty matching.
C) is typically based on a stand-alone resource strength such as technological expertise.
D) refers to a company's most efficiently executed value-chain activity.
E) uses industry key success factors to provide a company with a core competence that rivals cannot effectively imitate.