question archive Gerber Products Company brands its baby food and is an example of a resource that is potentially inimitable, making it difficult for competitors to copy
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Gerber Products Company brands its baby food and is an example of a resource that is potentially inimitable, making it difficult for competitors to copy. What characteristic of sustainable competitive advantage is involved?
path dependency
causal ambiguity
exit barriers
a balanced scorecard
Answer:
Path dependency
Explanation:
Path dependency is the characteristic of sustainable competitive advantage in which Gerber Products is involved. Path Dependency refers to a characteristic which is unique and therefore scarce resource feature due to all that has occurred along the route that has been followed by its growth and/or accumulation. Competitors can not go out and purchase these resources quickly and easily; in ways that are hard to accelerate, they must be constructed up over time.