2.3. Theoretical background: Resource complementarity in RBV and
microeconomic theory
The Resource-Based View (RBV) argues that firm resources are
heterogeneously distributed across firms. When the firm resources
are valuable, rare, imperfectly imitable, and nonsubstitutable, they
could create competitive advantages, which in turn could explain the
differences in firm performance [8,28,84]. Moreover, resources tend to