Innovation, Competitive Advantage and Rent: A Model and Test
提出并检验了企业从创新中获取租金的四个前提条件：因果理解、创新团队能力、新能力的涌现与调动、竞争优势的创造，并用结构方程模型验证了它们对创新项目租金的预测作用。
Four antecedents, it is argued, are necessary precursors for a firm to capture rents from innovation. The antecedents are causal understanding; innovation team proficiency; emergence and mobilization of new competences; and creation of competitive advantages, each of which are conceptually distinct and precisely defined in the paper. These constructs are linked together in a stage model and subsequently operationalized and tested using LISREL. Substantial support is found for the central thesis, that achieving each of the four antecedent processes increases the predicted rents from an innovation project.