The durability of competitive advantage is concerned with value preservation. As shown in Table 1, in the row labeled ‘Value preservation’, to prevent imitation from rivals, the resource-based view addresses isolating mechanisms related to firm-specific resources, such as resource scarcity, causal ambiguity, time compression diseconomies, and asset stock interconnectedness (Barney, 1991; Dierickx & Cool, 1989; Peteraf & Barney, 2003).