Supply chain management and competitive advantage: an analisys model from resource based theory

The quest of competitive advantage has being discussed from different visions with a large insertion on the theoretical business strategy field. This way, resource-based theory is one of the different explanatory streams of the competitive advantage that explains firm heterogeneity and competitive advantage based on the internal resources configuration. In an extended approach named relational view, the competitive advantage could be linked to the company insertion in networks and the relational resources development, also suffering the institutional environment influence. On the other hand the competitive advantage sometimes is associated with the use of managerial tools by the enterprises and how they conduct their businesses. In this scenario the Supply Chain Management (SCM) emerges like an important element that can help to competitive advantage attainment by the companies that use its bases. Nevertheless the field of SCM needs a better theoretical development, mainly by the use of organizational theories. Thus these paper intents to develop a supply chain management contribution to obtain competitive advantage analysis model to be applied on industrial supply chains, based on resource-based theory, specially the relational view. It is a theoretical essay work that presents an analysis model that could be applied in future empirical studies.