Determinants of firm performance: a structural equation approach

• Author(s): Correia, Ricardo Jorge ; Dias, José G. ; Teixeira, Mário Sérgio
• Date: 2015
• Persistent ID: http://hdl.handle.net/10198/17328
• Origin: Biblioteca Digital do IPB
• Subject(s): Structural equation models; Latent variables; Business performance
• Document Type: Conference object
• Language: English
• Contributor(s): Biblioteca Digital do IPB

Description

This research analyzes specific determinants of firm Performance taking the Resource Based View (RBV) theory to explaining how firms achieve sustained competitive advantages based on their VRIN (valuable, rare, inimitable and not replaceable) resources and capabilities (BARNEY, 1991). TEECE et al. (1997) introduced the concept of Dynamic Capabilities (DC) as an RBV extension. Our conceptual model defines these capabilities as the result of firm’s Learning, Market and Entrepreneurial Orientations, which mediate the development of Competitive Advantages (CA) and improving firm Performance.