Knowledge-Based View
Knowledge as the firm's primary strategic resource — KBV extension of the resource-based view
The knowledge-based view (KBV) (Robert Grant; building on Jay Barney’s resource-based view (RBV)) is strategic-management vocabulary in which knowledge — what the organisation knows and can apply — is the primary strategic resource. Products, routines, and relationships rest on it; competitors can copy assets and still miss what you know how to do.
KBV does not replace VRIO; it names the usual object of the test:
O is where this corpus reads epistemic harness and knowledge synthesis infrastructure: without tier, commitment, and experiments, VRI knowledge stays in heads and decks.
Corpus stance
A2 — working context: We cite Grant for the knowledge-centred RBV extension; synthesis and intelligence series carry the operational implementation.