Public Information and Private Profit: Notes on a Resource-based Theory of Management

• Main Author: ROBINS, James Arthur
• Format: text
• Language: English
• Published: Institutional Knowledge at Singapore Management University 1994
• Subjects: Resource management; resource requirements planning; business planning; Organizational Behavior and Theory; Strategic Management Policy
• Online Access: https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/lkcsb_research/73; https://doi.org/10.5465/AMBPP.1994.10341645
• Institution: Singapore Management University

The role of public information in economic compensation has emerged as a basic problem for strategy theory. Competitive theories argue that publicly marketed information cannot generate rents--an idea that poses serious problems for management research, education, and consulting. This paper develops...