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Birger Wernerfelt

Management Theorist

Birger Wernerfelt (born 1951) is a Danish economist and management theorist who serves as J. C. Penney Professor of Management Emeritus at the MIT Sloan School of Management. He is known for his 1984 article A Resource-Based View of the Firm, which named and helped launch the resource-based view as a framework in strategic management, and for his later adaptation-cost theory of the firm. This description is adapted from Wikipedia contributors under CC BY-SA 4.0; changes were made. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/

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Birger Wernerfelt is the economist whose 1984 article A Resource-Based View of the Firm named and launched the resource-based view as a framework in strategic management and entrepreneurship.

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He is known for his 1984 article, "A Resource-Based View of the Firm", which named and started the development of the resource-based view (RBV) in strategic management.
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