Sustaining competitive advantage of Malaysian ports: A resource based view perspective

• Main Author: Arbak, Salwani
• Other Authors: Mohd Sani, Mohd Azizuddin
• Format: Book Section
• Language: English
• Published: College of Law, Government and International Studies, Universiti Utara Malaysia. 2010
• Subjects: HE Transportation and Communications
• Online Access: http://repo.uum.edu.my/2539/1/Salwani_Arbak_-_Sustaining_Competitive_Advantage.pdf; http://repo.uum.edu.my/2539/; http://icis.uum.edu.my/

This paper is aimed to analyze the trends and changing environment of Malaysian ports industry and also attempts to discuss the strategies to sustain competitive advantage based on the theoretical perspective Ports cannot rely only on its external resources such as strategic locational advantage, excellent physical infrastructure and good structure of hinterland. The emergence of RBV has expanding the way of sustaining port competitive advantage by extracting and utilizing the firm internal resources. The detailed discussion of the ports and its resources, and analyzed the case using Resources-based view (RBV) of strategy. Finally this paper aimed to develop the Malaysian port competitiveness based on RBV framework.