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Commitment versus flexibility?

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Pankaj Ghemawat *
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Patricio del Sol
DOI:10.2307/41165963delete
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This article unbundles the relation between commitment and flexibility by distinguishing between firm-specific and usage-specific resources. This distinction turns out to be valuable because firm-specificity does not always imply (nor is it always implied by) usage-specificity. Firm-specific resources are more strategic than usage-specific resources, More broadly, the distinction between these two kinds of specificity helps explain why the tension between commitment and flexibility can easily be overdone: the two aren't always negative measures of each other.
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California Management Review cover
California Management Review
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7.3
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