This article unbundles relationship between commitment and flexibility, the difference between one company and the use of specific resources. This distinction is valuable because the firm-specificity is not always (and this is not always understood), the use of specificity. The firm specific resources more strategic than the use of specific resources. In a broader sense, the distinction between these two types of specificity helps explain the tension between commitment and flexibility can easily be overdone. The two are not always negative actions of one another "Hide
by Pankaj Ghemawat, Patricio Del Sol Source: California Management Review 18 pages. Publication Date: July 1, 1998. Prod. #: CMR124-PDF-ENG
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