Property rights theory has common antecedents with contractual theories of the firm such as transaction costs and agency theories. Yet, property rights theory is distinct from these contractual theories. The objectives of the current paper are to analyze extant property rights theory and to...

Resource-based theory focuses on how economic value is created and sustained, providing the theoretical underpinnings for explaining and predicting sustainable competitive advantage. An implicit assumption of resource-based theory is that the firm's property rights to such resources are secure....

An understanding of Austrian entrepreneurship, in conjunction with property rights, resource-based and transaction costs theory allow us to understand economic rent generation as a dynamic process. The current paper expands Foss and Foss' (2005) application of property rights theory in...

This paper maintains that joining property rights theory and Austrian economics informs the dynamic capabilities approach by giving context to key constructs within this approach, particularly the nature of organizational processes and asset positions. By defining resources and capabilities as...