McGrath, Rita Gunther; Tsai, Ming-Hone; Venkataraman, S.; … - In: Management Science 42 (1996) 3, pp. 389-403
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 … central thesis, that achieving each of the four antecedent processes increases the predicted rents from an innovation project. …