Abstract
Resource-based theory implicitly assumes that property rights to resources are secure. Extant property rights theory enables us to relax this assumption to take into account processes where there are struggles in establishing property rights that enhance the realized economic value of resources. A case study of oil field unitization (where a single firm is designated as unit operator to develop the oil reservoir as a whole) is analyzed to illustrate the following points: a full resource-based analysis of value creation must incorporate the role of property rights to internalize externalities and to solve prisoners' dilemma problems of common-pool resources.
| Original language | English (US) |
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| Pages (from-to) | 225-245 |
| Number of pages | 21 |
| Journal | Managerial and Decision Economics |
| Volume | 23 |
| Issue number | 4-5 |
| DOIs | |
| State | Published - Jun 2002 |
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- Business and International Management
- Strategy and Management
- Management Science and Operations Research
- Management of Technology and Innovation