Throughout the past few years, changes in theprocesses of enterprise's resourcesacquisition have been reflected by the news opportunities provided by web-based technology, changes in the behaviours and expectations of business partners and customers as well. The aim of the paper is to demonstrate that virtualization of resourcesacquisitionprocesses has essential effect on the achievement of competitive advantage by enterprises in the market. Importance of theresources in theenterprise has been justified based on theresource-based theory. Selected typologies of theresources in theenterprise were presented with the directions of changes in theprocess of resourcesacquisition. A model of theprocess of resourcesacquisition was also proposed. The study also emphasizes the opportunities for virtualization of different types of resourcesacquisitionprocesses in enterprises. The study aim was achieved using the results obtained in a survey carried out in a big enterprise from the food processing sector. Copyright © 2013 SCITEPRESS.

Acquisition of resources; Enterprise's resources; Resource-based theory; Virtualization of theprocesses