Patents as Surrogates for Inimitable and Non-Substitutable Resources

By Gideon D. Markman, M. Espina, Phillip H. Phan. 2004

153 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: Economics and Econometrics, Management of Technology and Innovation

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In Economics and Econometrics

1. Zhiang Lin
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2. Haibin Yang
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Citations in the corpus

• Value, rareness, competitive advantage, and performance: a conceptual‐level empirical investigation of the resource‐based view of the firm (2008, methodology): “For example, Markman, Espina, and Phan (2004), in their conceptual-level study, find that competitive advantage in the pharmaceutical industry is related to the inimitability but not the substitutability of patents.”
• Factor-Market Rivalry (2009, unknown): “Also, earlier research tended to treat patents as VRIN resources (Markman et al., 2004), but as some of our examples and a growing field of technology transfer and commercialization show, patents can be versatile and mobile.”
• A multilevel framework of firm boundaries: Firm characteristics, dyadic differences, and network attributes (2010, background): “Markman, Espina, and Phan (2004) argue that patents act as surrogates for inimitable and non-substitutable resources.”