How Do Value Creation and Competition Determine Whether a Firm Appropriates Value?

Glenn MacDonald () and Michael Ryall
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Glenn MacDonald: Olin School of Business, Washington University in St. Louis, St. Louis, Missouri 63130

Management Science, 2004, vol. 50, issue 10, 1319-1333

Abstract: How does competition among economic actors determine the value that each is able to appropriate? We provide a formal, general framework within which this question can be posed and answered, and then provide several results. Chief among them is a condition that is both required for, and guarantees, value appropriation. We apply our methodology to (i) assess the familiar notion that uniqueness, inimitability, and competition imply value appropriation, and (ii) determine the value appropriation possibilities for an innovator whose unique discovery is of use to several others who can compete for the right to use it.

Keywords: value appropriation; competition; competitive advantage; imitation; innovation (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2004
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