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Resource Based Theory (RBT)

  RBT, or resource-based theory, is a well-known method for strategic management. In order for a company to maintain a competitive edge, it has been frequently used as a managerial framework to identify essential resources. The theory offers a crucial framework for deriving explanations for and projections of the basic drivers of a firm's performance and competitive advantage. Penrose (2009) introduced Resource-Based Theory (RBT) for the first time by putting up a model for the efficient management of organisations' resources, diversification tactics, and business possibilities. The idea of seeing a corporation as a coordinated collection of resources to address and tackle how it might achieve its goals and strategic behaviour was first put out in Penrose's book. RBT offers a framework to identify and foresee the core elements of business performance and competitive advantage. In response to prior managerial interest in the industry structure, a more macro viewpoint, RBT tu...

Trade off theory

 According to the trade-off theory of capital structure, business leverage is calculated by weighing the advantages of debt in terms of tax savings against the costs of bankruptcy. The theory was created at the beginning of the 1970s, and despite a number of significant obstacles, it is still the most widely accepted explanation of corporate capital structure.  According to the argument, if the tax system permits more generous interest rate tax deductions, corporate debt will rise in the risk-free interest rate. The amount of debt is dropping throughout a bankruptcy's deadweight losses. The tax advantages are reducing as the risk-free interest rate is rising, which affects the equilibrium price of debt. According to Friedman (1970), trade-off theory asserts that a company must utilise its assets and skills to best serve its shareholders and increase their profits (Gillan et al., 2021). Therefore, it contends that ESG-related investments come with extra expenses that might redu...

Stranded Assets

  It would be necessary to retain a significant amount of the world's current fossil fuel reserves underground in order to reduce the rise in global temperature to well below 2°C. In order to keep global warming to 1.5°C, the Paris Agreement target, an estimated 60% of oil and gas reserves and 90% of known coal stocks need stay untapped, according to a 2022 research published in the journal Nature. These "stranded assets"—fossil fuel resources that cannot be burnt and fossil fuel infrastructure, such as pipelines and power plants—that is no longer in use and may become a liability before the end of its expected economic lifetime—would be left behind in this scenario. The shift to a low-carbon economy might have an impact on companies that extract coal, gas, and oil, but other industries are also at danger. Other industries, like the aviation industry, that rely on fossil fuels as manufacturing inputs or are otherwise energy- or carbon-intensive, may also be affected. All ...