The GE Paradox: Competitive Advantage Through Fungible Non-Firm-Specific Investment
研究通用电气在培养非企业特定管理人才方面的卓越能力，并解释这种投资如何成为持续竞争优势的来源，对战略管理学者和企业高管有参考价值。
This study addresses two questions: (a) Does General Electric have an exceptional ability to develop non-firm-specific general management talent, and (b) how can GE’s investment into non-firm-specific, nonproprietary managerial capabilities be explained theoretically? The authors’ analysis provides evidence that GE has an extraordinary managerial development capability. Their theory suggests that GE’s managerial development process is valuable, rare, inimitable, and organized to be exploited, and therefore, a source of sustained competitive advantage. This process produces a flow of managers with the potential to be sources of temporary competitive advantage for GE. Outward flow of executive talent is a required byproduct of the process.