
Barney (1988) "Returns to Bidding Firms in Mergers and Acquisitions: Reconsidering the Relatedness Hypothesis," Strategic Management Journal, 9, Special Issue: 71-78. Barney (1986) "Strategic Factor Markets: Expectations, Luck, and Business Strategy," Management Science, 32(10): 1231-1241. Barney (1986) "Organizational Culture: Can It Be a Source of Sustained Competitive Advantage?" Academy of Management Review.
(Honorary) Lund University, Lund, Sweden (1997)
(Honorary) Copenhagen Business School, Copenhagen, Denmark (2008) (Honorary) Universidad Pontificia Comillas, Madrid, Spain (2011)
Fellow, Strategic Management Society (2007). Irwin Outstanding Educator Award, Business Policy and Strategy Division of the Academy of Management (2005). Academy of Management Scholarly Contributions Award (2010). Research topics that build directly on resource-based theory include The Knowledge based Theory of the Firm, Relational View, Dynamic Capabilities, theories of core competence, and competitive heterogeneity.īarney currently serves as the editor of the Academy of Management Review. Sharon Alvarez to develop a new theoretical approach to the study of entrepreneurship. In the mid-2000s, Professor Barney worked with Dr. This framework is known as the VRIO (Valuable, Rare, Costly to Imitate, and exploited by Organization). Professor Barney's 1991 paper has developed a framework for distinguishing among several different types of firm performance-i.e., competitive disadvantage, competitive parity, temporary competitive advantage, and sustained competitive advantage competitive advantage-and identified the attributes of resources and capabilities that would make them costly to imitate. He moved to the Mays Business School at Texas A&M University in 1986, then to the Fisher College of Business at the Ohio State University in 1994, where he held the Chase Chair for Excellence in Corporate Strategy, and then to the Eccles School of Business at the University of Utah in 2012, where he held the rank of Presidential Professor and the Lassonde Chair in Social Entrepreneurship. He graduated from BYU, summa cum laude, in December 1974 and began the Doctor of Philosophy program in sociology at Yale University in New Haven, Connecticut in 1976.īarney joined the faculty at the Anderson Graduate School of Management at UCLA in 1980.
He attended Brigham Young University in Provo, Utah where he majored in sociology. He spent his formative years in San Bruno, California and graduated from San Carlos High School in San Carlos, California in 1972. Jay Barney was born in Walnut Creek, California on October 8, 1954.