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Birger Wernerfelt

Birger Wernerfelt

D-Index & Metrics

Business and Management

D-Index
45
Citations
70239
World Ranking
1237
National Ranking
526

Birger Wernerfelt publication distribution in Business and Management in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Business and Management in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Birger Wernerfelt sits on this spectrum.

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35 publications 436+

This scientist: 143 publications — 54th percentile

54% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 436 publications or more.

Birger Wernerfelt D-index placement in Business and Management in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Business and Management scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Birger Wernerfelt sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 89+

This scientist: 45 D-Index — 59th percentile

59% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 89 D-Index or more.

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2020 - INFORMS Society for Marketing Science (ISMS) Fellow Award

Overview

Birger Wernerfelt is affiliated with MIT in the United States and has contributed research primarily in the fields of Economics, Econometrics and Finance, and Business, Management and Accounting. Their work spans several subfields, including Economics and Econometrics, Accounting, Finance, Demography, and Management Information Systems.

The researcher's main topics of study include Economic theories and models, Corporate Finance and Governance, Firm Innovation and Growth, Merger and Competition Analysis, Stochastic processes and financial applications, Insurance, Mortality, Demography, Risk Management, and Private Equity and Venture Capital.

Recent publications by Birger Wernerfelt include:

  • "A Possible Micro-Foundation for the RBV and its Implications" (2020, Strategic Management Review)
  • "When Does the Underdog Win?" (2021, Strategy Science)
  • "Diversified firms: existence and behaviors" (2021, Journal of Institutional Economics)
  • "Internalization of Advertising Services: Testing a Theory of the Firm" (2021, Marketing Science)
  • "Stochastic Continuous Time Games and Optimization Problems with Controlled Point Process Arrivals" (2023, SSRN Electronic Journal)

Frequent co-authors include Alvin J. Silk and Shuyi Yu, both having collaborated on at least one publication with Wernerfelt.

Wernerfelt's research has appeared in several venues, including Strategy Science, Strategic Management Review, Journal of Institutional Economics, Marketing Science, and SSRN Electronic Journal, each featuring one publication by the author.

In 2020, Birger Wernerfelt received the INFORMS Society for Marketing Science (ISMS) Fellow Award.

Best Publications

  • A Resource-Based View of the Firm

    Birger Wernerfelt

  • The resource‐based view of the firm: Ten years after

    Birger Wernerfelt

  • DETERMINANTS OF FIRM PERFORMANCE: THE RELATIVE IMPORTANCE OF ECONOMIC AND ORGANIZATIONAL FACTORS

    Gary S. Hansen;Birger Wernerfelt

  • Defensive Marketing Strategy by Customer Complaint Management: A Theoretical Analysis:

    Claes Fornell;Birger Wernerfelt

  • The link between resources and type of diversification: Theory and evidence

    Sayan Chatterjee;Birger Wernerfelt

  • Tobin's q and the Importance of Focus in Firm Performance

    Cynthia A. Montgomery;Birger Wernerfelt

  • Diversification, Ricardian rents, and Tobin's q

    Cynthia A. Montgomery;Birger Wernerfelt

  • An Evaluation Cost Model of Consideration Sets

    John R. Hauser;Birger Wernerfelt

  • Umbrella branding as a signal of new product quality: an example of signalling by posting a bond

    Birger Wernerfelt

  • From Critical Resources to Corporate Strategy

    Birger Wernerfelt

  • Technical change, competition and vertical integration

    Srinivasan Balakrishnan;Birger Wernerfelt

  • Competitive strategy under uncertainty

    Birger Wernerfelt;Aneel Karnani

  • A Model for Customer Complaint Management

    Claes Fornell;Birger Wernerfelt

  • Multiple point competition

    Aneel Karnani;Birger Wernerfelt

  • A Resource-Based View of the Firm

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  • Customer Satisfaction Incentives

    John R. Hauser;Duncan I. Simester;Birger Wernerfelt

  • Defensive Marketing Strategy by Customer Complaint Management: A Theoretical Analysis

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  • Competitive Price and Quality Under Asymmetric Information

    Gerard J. Tellis;Birger Wernerfelt

  • Risk Reduction and Umbrella Branding

    Cynthia A. Montgomery;Birger Wernerfelt

  • Brand Loyalty and Market Equilibrium

    Birger Wernerfelt

  • On credible delegation by oligopolists: a discussion of distribution channel management

    Anne T. Coughlan;Birger Wernerfelt

  • The Role of Inference in Context Effects: Inferring What You Want from What Is Available

    Drazen Prelec;Birger Wernerfelt;Florian Zettelmeyer

Frequent Co-Authors

Jay Hauser
Jay Hauser University of California, Los Angeles
Reinhard Selten
Reinhard Selten University of Bonn
Elke U. Weber
Elke U. Weber Princeton University
Denis J. Hilton
Denis J. Hilton Federal University of Toulouse Midi-Pyrénées
Claes Fornell
Claes Fornell University of Michigan–Ann Arbor
Roland T. Rust
Roland T. Rust University of Maryland, College Park
David E. M. Sappington
David E. M. Sappington University of Florida
Raphael Amit
Raphael Amit University of Pennsylvania

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