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## Article 116 — a116

# Timothy B. Folta

## Timothy B. Folta

**Role in this source:** co-author of the HBR article and of the underlying AMR paper ([[entity-academy-of-management-review]]).

**Profile:** a professor of strategy and entrepreneurship (University of Connecticut). With [[entity-teresa-dickler]] he co-authored *'Identifying internal markets for resource redeployment'* in [[entity-org-strategic-management-journal]], and his broader work on redeployability and internal markets underpins the [[concept-resource-redeployability]] concept. Folta's research background also connects the argument to the economics of [[prereq-sunk-costs|sunk costs]] and real-options reasoning.

### Attributed contributions in this vault

- Co-development of the [[concept-commitment-paradox]], the [[framework-competitive-intensity-model]], and the [[framework-market-entry-evaluation]].
- Co-attribution on claims [[claim-sunk-costs-favor-focused]] and [[claim-winner-take-all-flips-advantage]].
- Co-attribution on quotes [[quote-flexibility-signals-weakness]], [[quote-commitment-overwhelms-flexibility]], [[quote-synergy-vs-retreat]].

Co-authors: [[entity-phebo-wibbens]], [[entity-teresa-dickler]].