Rethinking Rouse and Daellenbach's rethinking: isolating vs. testing for sources of sustainable competitive advantage
批评Rouse和Daellenbach（1999）提出的五步方法论，指出其混淆了知道如何与知道什么的区别、忽视可观测变量的重要性、以及对因变量进行抽样，认为该方法只能帮助理解潜在优势，无法有效验证假设。
Abstract In a recent paper, Rouse and Daellenbach (1999) provide a five‐step methodological approach which they feel will cure alleged inadequacies in empirical resource‐based research. We suggest, however, that their methodology can provide only a useful aid for expanding our understanding of potential sustainable competitive advantages but will not allow researchers to effectively verify those hypothesized advantages. Specifically, we argue that Rouse and Daellenbach's methodology is plagued by three major shortcomings: (1) it confuses the important distinction between knowing‐how and knowing‐what; (2) it fails to recognize the importance of observable variables in verifying the sources of sustainable competitive advantage; and (3) it calls for sampling on the dependent variable. Copyright © 2002 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.