The Hart Asset at the Heart of Your Organisation

What assets does a firm need to hold to develop a profitable business model? A ‘Hart asset’ is an asset that a firm cannot strategically afford a rival firm to own or control due to the risk of hold up, and therefore must be held within the firm, and upon which a profitable business model can be built. We tie the Hart asset to the problem of complementarities in profitable innovation, and conclude with an example Hart asset in digital platforms

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Year of publication:	2020
Authors:	Davidson, Sinclair ; Berg, Chris ; Potts, Jason
Publisher:	[S.l.] : SSRN

Extent:	1 Online-Ressource (6 p)
Type of publication:	Book / Working Paper
Language:	English
Notes:	Nach Informationen von SSRN wurde die ursprüngliche Fassung des Dokuments November 27, 2020 erstellt
Other identifiers:	10.2139/ssrn.3738418 [DOI]
Classification:	D23 - Organizational Behavior; Transaction Costs; Property Rights ; D86 - Economics of Contract: Theory ; L1 - Market Structure, Firm Strategy, and Market Performance ; L2 - Firm Objectives, Organization, and Behavior ; M21 - Business Economics
Source:	ECONIS - Online Catalogue of the ZBW

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