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Rasmus Sylvester Iversen - 20021479<br />

Institut for Økonomi, <strong>Aarhus</strong> Universitet<br />

<strong>Statiske</strong> <strong>og</strong> <strong>dynamiske</strong> <strong>tilgange</strong> <strong>indenfor</strong> <strong>strategifeltet</strong><br />

Kandidatafhandling<br />

Abstract<br />

The strategic industry perspective presented by M.E. Porter, in his book Competitive Strategy as<br />

well as “The Resource Based View of the Firm”, have in many years been the dominating paradigms<br />

in the strategic management field. The reason for this being that they both give some relatively<br />

formalized analytical frameworks, which are fairly straightforward to use normatively. However<br />

both paradigms have also been criticized of being too static.<br />

The main purpose of this thesis is to analyze to which extent it has been possible within these two<br />

paradigms to add more dynamic thinking. This has been done by considering whether the theories,<br />

Competitive Advantage of Nations and Dynamic Capabilities Approach, considered in this thesis as<br />

the dynamic “superstructures” within the two paradigms, have succeeded in adding more dynamics<br />

to respectively the Competitive Strategy and The Resource Based View of the Firm. In addition to<br />

this it has been analyzed whether there are any complications concerned with using the dynamic<br />

“superstructures” as a normative strategic tool.<br />

The primary weakness of the two dominating paradigms appears to be that their analytical frameworks<br />

merely contribute with a static snapshot explaining only, which sources represent a competitive<br />

advantage at any given point in time. The reason for these static approaches is that both paradigms<br />

have their roots in microeconomics.<br />

The thesis illustrates that Competitive Advantage of Nations and Dynamic Capabilites Approach are<br />

able to add more dynamics as they focus on the dynamic process through which a competitive advantage<br />

is achieved and developed. The primary reason for this being that the dynamic “superstructures”,<br />

instead of having their roots in the microeconomic equilibrium foundation, are inspired by<br />

more development focussed approaches like the Austrian school of economics and evolutionary<br />

theories.<br />

However despite the fact that these dynamic ”superstructures” are able to add more dynamics to the<br />

two paradigms their normative usability can still be criticized. For instance because the strategic<br />

suggestions that both theories come up with are based on elements that the company has only lim-

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