The Growth Of The Firm

Author : Edith Penrose
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 301 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2009-09-24
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780191623424

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There are not many books that are genuine classics, and only a handful in business and management whose insights and ideas last for 50 years and more. This book is one of the very few 'must reads' for anybody seriously interested in the role of management within the firm. Originally published in 1959, The Theory of the Growth of the Firm has illuminated and inspired thinking in strategy, entrepreneurship, knowledge creation, and innovation. Edith Penrose's tightly-argued classic laid the foundations for the resource based view of the firm, now the dominant framework in business strategy. She analyses managerial activities and decisions, organizational routines, and also the factors that inevitably limit a firm's growth prospects. For this new anniversary edition, Christos Pitelis has written a new introduction which both tells the story of Penrose's extraordinary life, and provides a balanced assessment of her key ideas and their continuing relevance and freshness.

Author : Edith Tilton Penrose
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0198289774

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The Theory of the Growth of the Firm by Edith Tilton Penrose Pdf

This 'goldmine of concepts for understanding business and industrial organization' was originally published in 1959 but has been an influence in business schools ever since. The author combines rigorous theory with close observation of the real business world, and writes simply but with anoriginal approach. Her focus on teams and organizational knowledge underlines contemporary discussion of 'organizational competences' and she has written a new introduction which assesses the book's impact and describes the subsequent development of her own ideas.

Author : Edith Tilton Penrose
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2013-12
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 161427536X

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The Theory of the Growth of the Firm by Edith Tilton Penrose Pdf

2013 Reprint of 1959 American Edition. Full facsimile of the original edition, not reproduced with Optical Recognition Software. This edition reprints the text from the 1959 First Edition originally published by Wiley. Why do some firms perform better than others? What enables a firm to grow and take advantage of its opportunities? Currently much discussion of these questions pivots around the ideas of competencies and capabilities, and the concept of the learning organization or knowledge-creating company. "The Theory of the Growth of the Firm" is a rich and pioneering work that addresses these questions and laid the foundation for this approach often referred to as the "resource based view of the firm." Edith Penrose analyzes managerial activities and decisions, organizational routines, and knowledge creation within the company and argues that they are critical to the ability of a firm to grow. This work has become a classic business book and remains relevant to this day.

Author : Alex Coad
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
Page : 209 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2009-01-01
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781848449107

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The Growth of Firms by Alex Coad Pdf

Research into firm growth has been accumulating at a terrific pace, and Alex Coad s survey of this multifaceted field provides a detailed, comprehensive overview of the latest developments. Much progress has been made in empirical research into firm growth in recent decades due to factors such as the availability of detailed longitudinal datasets, more powerful computers and new econometric techniques. This book provides an up-to-date catalogue of empirical work, as well as a coherent theoretical structure within which these new results can be interpreted and understood. It brings together a large body of recent research on firm growth from a multidisciplinary perspective, providing an up-to-date synthesis of stylized facts and empirical regularities. Numerous empirical findings and theories of firm growth are also surveyed and compared in order to evaluate their validity. Drawing on a vast and diverse body of research, this book will prove invaluable to students, academics, policy makers and practitioners with a need to keep abreast of studies in industrial organization, firm growth and management.

Author : Per Davidsson,Leona Achtenhagen,Lucia Naldi
Publisher : Now Publishers Inc
Page : 111 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781601983565

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Small Firm Growth by Per Davidsson,Leona Achtenhagen,Lucia Naldi Pdf

Small Firm Growth comprehensively reviews the empirical literature on small firm growth to highlight and integrate what is known about this phenomenon and take stock of what past experiences of researching this area implies for how the phenomenon can or should be studied in future research.

Author : Angelo Dringoli
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2012-01-01
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781781005675

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New Perspectives on the Modern Corporation by Angelo Dringoli Pdf

This book explores the conditions for growth that can create value for shareholders, focusing on the main strategies adopted by firms including horizontal expansion, vertical integration and product diversification. To evaluate whether or not a particular growth strategy is successful, the author examines the economic fundamentals of each strategy and presents analytical models of both internal development and external acquisition. He moves on to present four case studies of successful companies to highlight how a firm chooses and implements a defined growth strategy. This stimulating integrated analysis will appeal to researchers and students in business administration as well as managers, entrepreneurs and consultants involved in strategic management.--publisher description.

Author : Per Davidsson,Johan Wiklund
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
Page : 353 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2013-01-01
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780857933614

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New Perspectives on Firm Growth by Per Davidsson,Johan Wiklund Pdf

ÔThis collection of articles by an internationally recognized team of authors is a welcome addition to the literature on firm growth. The authors, singly and together, have previously made important contributions with regard to frameworks for understanding growth, as well as cutting-edge empirical research on the actual growth process. In this volume, the authors bring previous research up-to-date, providing a critical look at what has been published in the last decade and offering new theoretically informed insights in how and why firms grow.Õ Ð Howard Aldrich, University of North Carolina, US This insightful volume presents a collection of cutting-edge works by two of the leading researchers of firm growth. The studies extend previous research by providing stronger theoretical underpinnings and using longitudinal databases that can separate in time the firmsÕ growth from its presumed causes. They also break new ground by examining different modes of growth, such as sales growth vs. employment growth, and organic growth vs. acquisition-based expansion. Further, the studies investigate the drivers of firm growth and take a critical look at the effects, such as under what circumstances high growth is associated with high profitability. The issue of how firm growth is achieved and managed, and what consequences it has for different stakeholders is both theoretically interesting and practically important. The book will strongly appeal to academics of entrepreneurship, small business management and strategy.

Author : Per Davidsson,Frédéric Delmar,Johan Wiklund
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2006-01-01
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1781009945

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Entrepreneurship and the Growth of Firms by Per Davidsson,Frédéric Delmar,Johan Wiklund Pdf

Exploring the relationships between the growth of firms and entrepreneurship, the authors have drawn on many individual projects & case studies to provide a comprehensive analysis.

Author : Edith Tilton Penrose
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 301 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0191570362

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The Theory of the Growth of the Firm by Edith Tilton Penrose Pdf

There are not many books that are genuine classics, and only a handful in business and management whose insights and ideas last for 50 years and more. This book is one of the very few 'must reads' for anybody seriously interested in the role of management within the firm.Originally published in 1959, The Theory of the Growth of the Firm has illuminated and inspired thinking in strategy, entrepreneurship, knowledge creation, and innovation. Edith Penrose's tightly-argued classic laid the foundations for the resource based view of the firm, now the dominant framework in business strategy. She an.

Author : John Haltiwanger,Erik Hurst,Javier Miranda (Economist),Antoinette Schoar
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 488 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2017-09-21
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780226454078

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Measuring Entrepreneurial Businesses by John Haltiwanger,Erik Hurst,Javier Miranda (Economist),Antoinette Schoar Pdf

Measuring Entrepreneurial Businesses: Current Knowledge and Challenges brings together and unprecedented group of economists, data providers, and data analysts to discuss research on the state of entrepreneurship and to address the challenges in understanding this dynamic part of the economy. Each chapter addresses the challenges of measuring entrepreneurship and how entrepreneurial firms contribute to economies and standards of living. The book also investigates heterogeneity in entrepreneurs, challenges experienced by entrepreneurs over time, and how much less we know than we think about entrepreneurship given data limitations. This volume will be a groundbreaking first serious look into entrepreneurship in the NBER's Income and Wealth series.

Author : Tim Mazzarol,Sophie Reboud
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 597 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2019-11-21
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9789811395093

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Small Business Management by Tim Mazzarol,Sophie Reboud Pdf

This textbook familiarises students with the theory and practice of small business management and challenges assumptions that may be held about the way small business management can or should adopt the management practices of larger firms. For students interested in establishing and managing their own small firm, this book helps them to focus their thinking on the realities of life as a small business owner-manager – both its challenges and its rewards. For postgraduate students that are keen to ‘make a difference’, this text enables them to understand how they might consult to small firms and assist owner-managers to establish and grow their ventures. In addition to students, this book is also useful to small business owner-managers as a general guide on how they might better manage their operations. Managers in large corporations and financial institutions who deal with small businesses as clients or suppliers, and professionals such as accountants, lawyers and consultants who provide advice and other services to small businesses will also find the book of interest.

Author : John Roberts
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2007-09-06
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780198293750

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The Modern Firm by John Roberts Pdf

Business firms around the world are experimenting with new organizational designs, changing their formal architectures, their routines and processes, and their corporate cultures as they seek to improve their current performance and their growth prospects. In the process they are changing the scope of their business operations, redrawing their organization charts, redefining the allocation of decision-making authority and responsibility, revamping the mechanisms for motivating and rewarding people, reconsidering which activities to conduct in-house and which to out-source, redesigning their information systems, and seeking to alter the shared beliefs, values and norms that their people hold. In this book, John Roberts argues that there are predictable, necessary relationships among these changes that will improve performance and growth. The organizations that are successful will establish patterns of fit among the elements of their organizational designs, their competitive strategies and the external environment in which they operate and will go about this in a holistic manner. The Modern Firm develops powerful conceptual frameworks for analyzing the interrelations between organizational design features, competitive strategy and the business environment. Written in a non-technical language, the book is nevertheless based on rigorous modeling and draws on numerous examples from eighteenth century fur trading companies to such modern firms such as BP and Nokia. Finally the book explores why these developments are happening now, pointing to the increase in global competition and changes in technology. Written by one of the world's leading economists and experts on business strategy and organization, The Modern Firm provides new insights into the changes going on in business today and will be of interest to academics, students and managers alike.

Author : Ellen Korsager
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2018-09-14
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781351395601

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The Evolution of Business by Ellen Korsager Pdf

Firm growth. This concept has interested researchers for generations. Economists have sought to predict and measure firm growth using a host of different variables, while strategic management scholars depict growth as the result of clever analyses and rational resource exploitation. Entrepreneurship scholars - ever engrossed by successful start-ups - have pondered why growth sometimes comes fast and sometimes never at all, while the field of business history has given countless examples of growing firms in a range of different settings. Yet despite research across fields, our knowledge of how growth in a firm actually comes about is limited and we still know little about the process. This book offers a new reading of economist Edith Penrose’s The Theory of the Growth of the Firm. The bold statement is that although Penrose’s work - across fields and generations - is amongst the most quoted on firm growth, the basic points of her work have yet to be realized and explored empirically. Essentially, growth is created by a dynamic interrelation between the firm’s self-conception and its image of context. Based on these two subjective categories, the firm makes decisions and its actions lead it to develop along a particular path. To Penrose this is the basic engine that drives the growth and development of firms. This book discusses how the engine of firm growth can be captured in empirical analysis using interpretative theory and narrative methods inspired by recent streams of research in business history.

Author : Edith T. Penrose
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 1966
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:1068681711

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Author : Edith Tilton Penrose,Christos Pitelis
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 340 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0199248524

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The Growth of the Firm by Edith Tilton Penrose,Christos Pitelis Pdf

Edith Penrose's contribution to the theory of the firm reinvented the classical tradition in economics. This volume builds on an issue of "Contributions to Political Economy" that celebrated 40 years since Penrose's publication, "The Theory of the Growth of the Firm".