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between them but their internal strategic capabilities. The importance of strategic capability is the focus of this chapter. There are three key concepts that underpin the discussion. The first is that organisations are not identical, but have different capabilities; they are ‘heterogeneous’ in this respect. The second is that it can be difficult for one organisation to obtain or copy the capabilities of another. For example, Sainsbury’s cannot readily obtain the whole of Tesco’s retail sites, its
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