Nowadays, natural resources underpin human and organizational activities. However, while natural resources and their scarcity pose a real managerial challenge and a serious constraint for firms, they have received little attention in strategic management and resources theories. Therefore, considering the longstanding neglect of NRs by RBV scholars, this research aims to discuss the place of NRs in RBV. Indeed, given that NRBV has sought to address the gap of the RBV by providing a conceptual framework that incorporates the constraints posed by the natural environment into firms’ strategy, a bibliometric analysis has been conducted to examine what types of natural challenges have been covered by previous NRBV research and then depict the place of NRBV within this theory. Indeed, the results reveal that natural resources remain overlooked by the strategic management scholars, RBV and NRBV. Additionally, the results allow to conclude that RBV and NRBV are limited to address challenges related to natural resources.
