Ashley Furniture controls all steps of its distribution systems,developing specific competencies that are difficult to match.They are using ________ to build sustainable advantage.
A) path dependency
B) social complexity
C) physical uniqueness
D) tangible resources

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Path dependency is a characteristic of resources that is developed and/or accumulated through a unique series of events. Resources are unique and therefore scarce because of all that has happened along the path followed in their development and/or accumulation. Competitors cannot go out and buy these resources quickly and easily; they must be built up over time in ways that are difficult to accelerate. Ashley Furniture uses both operational and relational resources that they have built up over time and are difficult to imitate rapidly to give themselves a sustainable competitive advantage.

Ashley Furniture Controls All Steps of Its Distribution Systems,developing Specific