The Economics of Strategic Opportunity
As emphasized by Barney (1986), any explanation of superior profitability must account for why the resources supporting such profitability could have been acquired for a price below their rent-generating capacity. Building upon the literature iti economics on coordination failures and incomplete markets, we suggest a framework for analyzing such strategic factor market inefficiencies. Our point of departure is that a strategic opportunity exists whenever prices fail to reflect the value of a resource's best use. This paper examines the challenges of imputing a resource's value in the absence of explicit price guidance and suggests the likely characteristics of strategic opportunities. Our framework also suggests that the discovery of strategic opportunity is often a matter of 'serendipity' and access to relevant idiosyncratic resources. This latter observation provides prescriptive advice, although the analysis also explains why more detailed guidance has to be firm specific.
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2003
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Authors: | Denrell, Jerker ; Fang, Christina ; Winter, Sidney G |
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Type of publication: | Article |
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Language: | English |
Notes: | Denrell, Jerker, Fang, Christina and Winter, Sidney G (2003) The Economics of Strategic Opportunity. Strategic Management Journal, 24 (10). pp. 977-990. |
Other identifiers: | 10.1002/smj.341 [DOI] |
Source: | BASE |
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011422915
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