GWD 5 - 22-25

xjlv128

赞楼上。

其实这道题是Application.

问的是r-b的支持者可能会指出……来说明blablabla

xjlv128

文中说了r-b asserts通常，公司都是通过积累……样的资源来提高竞争力的，但是IT不是……样的资源。

所以，如果proponent要支持，就先得说IT不是……样的资源

rebecca_blue

23题为什么选A不选B

everann

 But some observers questioned why,

       if IT had conferred economic value, it did

 (35)      not produce direct competitive advantages

for individual firms.  Resource-based

theory offers an answer, asserting that,

in general, firms gain competitive advan-

tages by accumulating resources that are                                   能够该来竞争优势的资源的特性

 (40)      economically valuable, relatively scarce,

and not easily replicated.  According to

a recent study of retail firms, which con-

firmed that IT has become pervasive                                        IT的特性

and relatively easy to acquire, IT by

 (45)      itself appeared to have conferred little

advantage.  In fact, though little evidence

of any direct effect was found, the fre-

quent negative correlations between IT

and performance suggested that IT had

 (50)      probably weakened some firms’ compet-

itive positions.  However, firms’ human

resources, in and of themselves, did

explain improved performance, and

some firms gained IT-related advan-

 (55)      tages by merging IT with complementary

resources, particularly human resources.

The findings support the notion, founded

in resource-based theory, that competi-

tive advantages do not arise from easily

 (60)      replicated resources, no matter how                                     肯定了IT是economically valuable的

impressive or economically valuable

they may be, but from complex, intan-

gible resources.

所以选A。

我开始也漏看最后一句的结论，选了B。

ptr07

First paragraph does not mention "resource -based theory", A is mentioned in second paragraph

xiangqinzh

最后一句简化再取非:

The findings support the notion that competi-

tive advantages  arise from from complex, intan-gible resources.

就是说竞争优势来源于复杂的，无形的资源。

取非：IT因为没有带来优势，自然就不是复杂的资源,所以跟A一样

高宝拉

恍然。。。。。

自己还笨笨的选C

想都知道，一眼就能从原文里面找出来，这么简单应该不可能啦。

miaomiao_622

---firms gain competitive advantages

by accumulating resources that are

(40) economically valuable, relatively scarce,

and not easily replicated.

---IT has become pervasive

and relatively easy to acquire

问题问的是r-b的proponents立场，

r-b认为：那些能够使公司获得竞争优势的资源应该是稀有的，不容易复制的。而IT是相对容易获得的资源

proponents只要说IT
        不容易获得即可。

A 显然错，它说IT不难获得--这是r-b观点

C 就是原文最后一句话，支持了proponents, IT is complex, intagible resource.

pallasgrace

 proponents ！！！所以应该是指第一段中Proponents of IT argued

(20) that it takes both time and a critical mass

of investment for IT to yield benefits, and

some suggested that growth figures for

the 1990’s proved these benefits were

finally being realized. They also argued

(25) that measures of productivity ignore what

would have happened without investments

in IT—productivity gains might have been

even lower. There were even claims that

IT had improved the performance of the

(30) service sector significantly, although mac-

roeconomic measures of productivity did

not reflect the improvement.

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