Key take aways - pre-recorded lectures

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Time compression diseconomies

It may be difficult for competition to catch up with you (head start)

Asset mass efficiencies

There may be a scale advantages (larger firm; difficult to imitate/ increasing returns -> if you are larger)

Interconnectedness of asset stocks

Complementarity of resources (bundle of resources together they're unique) (verworven)
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Schumpeterian competition (Schumpeter, 1943)

1. The essential point to grasp is that in dealing with capitalism we are dealing with an evolutionary process

2. Capitalism ... is by nature a form ... of economic change and not only never is but never can be stationary

3. The fundamental impulse that sets and keeps the capitalist engine in motion comes from [innovation]

4. .. the process that incessantly revolutionizes the economic structure from within, incessantly destroying the old one, incessantly creating the new one. This process of creative destruction is the essential fact about capitalism.

Arguments Pure Profit

- Pure profit comes from new combinations of resources (entrepreneurial/Knightian/Schumpeterian)

- Pure profit is a temporary source of economic profit that accrues to a configuration of resources and that can be competed/bargained away in product and/or resource markets.

Principle 4: Schumpeterian (entrepreneurial) profit

Given uncertainty, firms can earn an economic profit by bringing new combinations to the market. (Note that, by itself, uncertainty only allows for a temporary profit)

Sources of Entrepreneurial Profit (5)

  1. Information asymmetries
  2. Different expectations
  3. Luck
  4. (Entrepreneurial insight?)
  5. (Resource complementarities!)

The view of the firm in High Church of RBV

Economic reasoning
- Simplistic view of the firm: resources go in, products come out
- Black box

Tries to understand competitive strategy in terms of imperfections in product markets and imperfections in factor markets.

From ‘resource picking’ to ‘capability building’

Flows (asset accumulation) rather than stocks (Dierickx & Cool, 1989) o Dynamics
o Stocks = resources a firm controls at a particular point in time
o Flows = The process by which, over time, firms may accumulate these assets

Resources that must be built because they cannot be bought (Teece et al., 1997)
o Opening up the black box

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