Are there always synergies between productive resources and resource deployment capabilities?
研究检验了企业资源和部署能力是否总是协同提升绩效，基于医院专科手术数据发现两者独立改善绩效，但交互作用不显著，纠正了资源基础理论的一个常见误解。
While the independent impacts of particular firm resources and deployment capabilities on firm performance are unambiguous cornerstones of the strategy field, it is commonly assumed that their joint impacts are synergistic. This article seeks to understand whether this common misconception of resource‐based theory can be refuted empirically. Using data from hospitals conducting specialist surgery, I find hospital performance improves independently through better surgical resource quality and from more use of a streamlined form of resource management in which overall patient team leadership and operating team leadership are held by the same physician. Generally the interaction of these two firm activities had no impact on performance. These results contribute to the strategy field's understanding of whether and when internal fit affects performance, clarifying an incorrect inference commonly made about resource‐based theory . Copyright © 2013 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.