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Strategic assets and organizational rent
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We build on an emerging strategy literature that views the firm as a bundle of resources and capabilities, and examine conditions that contribute to the realization of sustainable economic rents. Because of (1) resource‐market imperfections and (2) discretionary managerial decisions about resource development and deployment, we expect firms to differ (in and out of equilibrium) in the resources and capabilities they control. This asymmetry in turn can be a source of sustainable economic rent. The paper focuses on the linkages between the industry analysis framework, the resource‐based view of the firm, behavioral decision biases and organizational implementation issues. It connects the concept of Strategic Industry Factors at the market level with the notion of Strategic Assets at the firm level. Organizational rent is shown to stem from imperfect and discretionary decisions to develop and deploy selected resources and capabilities, made by boundedly rational managers facing high uncertainty, complexity, and intrafirm conflict.
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“In addition to these two assumptions, the logic of RBT embraces the VRIO framework which clearly states that firm performance depends on the extent to which a firm possesses simultaneously valuable (V), rare (R), imperfectly imitable (I) resources which are properly organized (O) (Amit and Schoemaker, 1993;Barney et al., 2001).”
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“Amit and Schoemaker [20] define resources as tradable and non-specific firm assets, and capabilities as non-tradable firm-specific abilities to integrate, deploy, and utilize resources within the firm.”
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Metadata
- Authors
- Amit, R., & Schoemaker, P. J. H.
- Affiliations
- University of British Columbia (CA)
- University of Chicago (US)
- Venue
- Strategic Management Journal
- Publisher
- Wiley
- Published
- 1993-01
- Volume
- 14
- Issue
- 1
- Pages
- 33-46
- ISSN
- 0143-2095 (ISSN-L)
- 1097-0266
- OpenAlex
- W2102469678
- Cited by
- 8,425
- References
- 90
- Citations by year
- 2026: 161 · 2025: 190 · 2024: 252 · 2023: 267 · 2022: 299 · 2021: 341 · 2020: 312 · 2019: 331 · 2018: 372 · 2017: 370 · 2016: 381 · 2015: 420 · 2014: 466 · 2013: 472 · 2012: 431
- FWCI
- 175.50
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Locations
- Strategic Management Journal (publishedVersion)
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Business, Management and Accounting › Strategy and Management › Innovation and Knowledge Management
- Social Sciences › Business, Management and Accounting › Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management › Management and Organizational Studies
- Social Sciences › Business, Management and Accounting › Strategy and Management › Intellectual Capital and Performance Analysis
- Keywords
- strategic assets, resource-based view, economic rent, bounded rationality, managerial discretion, uncertainty and complexity
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