The Theory Of The Growth Of The Firm

Author : Edith Tilton Penrose
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0198289774

Get Book

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 Penrose
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 301 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2009-09-24
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780191623424

Get Book

The Theory of the Growth of the Firm by Edith 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 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 : Unknown
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2013-12
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 161427536X

Get Book

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 : Andrew H. Van de Ven,Vernon H Heath Professor of Organizational Innovation and Change Andrew H Van de Ven
Publisher : Oxford University Press on Demand
Page : 343 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2007-05-24
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780199226290

Get Book

Engaged Scholarship by Andrew H. Van de Ven,Vernon H Heath Professor of Organizational Innovation and Change Andrew H Van de Ven Pdf

A guide for organizational and social research in business studies and the social sciences, providing a clear framework for research design and methodology. It will be an invaluable tool for academics, researchers, and graduate students across the social sciences concerned with rigorous and relevant research in the contemporary world.

Author : Ellen Korsager
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2018-09-14
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781351395601

Get Book

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 : Alex Coad
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
Page : 209 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2009-01-01
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781848449107

Get Book

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 : Edith Tilton Penrose
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 301 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0191570362

Get Book

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 : Paul Walker
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2016-09-13
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781317277033

Get Book

The Theory of the Firm by Paul Walker Pdf

Firms are a ubiquitous feature of the economic landscape, with much of the activity undertaken within an economy taking place within their boundaries. Given the size of the contribution made by firms to economic activity, employment and growth, having a theoretical understanding of the nature and structure of firms is crucial for understanding how an economy functions. The Theory of the Firm firstly offers a brief overview of the past, consisting of a concise discussion of the classical view of production, followed by an outline of the development of the neoclassical - or ‘textbook’ - approach to firm level production. Secondly, the ‘present’ of the theory of the firm is discussed in three sections. The first section considers the post-1970 theory of the firm literature per se, while the second section scrutinises the relationship between the three most prominent of the modern sets of theories: the reference point, property rights and transaction cost approaches. The third section looks at the theory of privatisation. The unique aspects of this book includes its discussions of the post-1970 contributions to the theory of the firm; the integration of the theory of the entrepreneur with the theory of the firm; and the theory of privatisation. This volume offers an intuitive introduction to the theories of the firm as well as simple formal models of the most important contributions to the literature. It also outlines the historical evolution of the traditional and modern theories of the firm. This book is of great interest to those who study history of economic thought, industrial economics and organizational studies.

Author : Edith Penrose
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2019-04-18
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780429616488

Get Book

The Growth of Firms, Middle East Oil and Other Essays by Edith Penrose Pdf

Published in 1971: At first glance it might seem that the three subjects dealt with in the essays written over the last twenty years and now collected in this volume could hardly be more diverse, beginning with the growth of the firm and moving from the international petroleum industry to the Middle East generally. Oddly enough, however, these subjects are connected by the same type of historical logic that characterizes the diversification of an industrial firm: the logic in the simple principle that one thing leads to another.

Author : Edith T. Penrose
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 1966
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:1068681711

Get Book

The theory of the growth of the firm by Edith T. Penrose Pdf

Author : Frédéric Sautet
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 202 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2000-05-11
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781134582938

Get Book

An Entrepreneurial Theory of the Firm by Frédéric Sautet Pdf

This original, provocative work encompasses a wealth of existing literature and leads it in a new direction. It will inspire economic scholars particularly within the fields of Austrian economies and the theory of the firm.

Author : Manuel Becerra
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 310 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2009-02-05
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780521863346

Get Book

Theory of the Firm for Strategic Management by Manuel Becerra Pdf

Develops a value-based theory of the firm specifically aimed at strategic decision-making.

Author : Daniel F. Spulber
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 542 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2009-04-13
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780521517386

Get Book

The Theory of the Firm by Daniel F. Spulber Pdf

The Theory of the Firm presents an innovative general analysis of the economics of the firm.

Author : Bartosz Deszczyński
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 294 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2021-03-25
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9783030673383

Get Book

Firm Competitive Advantage Through Relationship Management by Bartosz Deszczyński Pdf

Relationship management (RM) is an essential part of business, but its success as a business model can be hard to measure, with some firms embracing a model that is truly relationship-orientated, while others claim to be relationship-orientated but in fact prefer transactional short-term gain. This open access book aims to develop a mid-range theory of relationship management, examining truly relationship-orientated firms to discover not only what qualities these firms have that make them successful at the RM model, but also what benefits this model has for the firm. It addresses questions like how RM-mature companies achieve and sustain competitive advantage, and what determines the scale and scope of these firms, illustrating with case studies. This book will be of interest to scholars studying leadership and strategy, especially those interested in relationship management, business ethics and corporate social responsibility. It will also be of interest to professionals looking to develop their understanding of relationship management.

Author : H. Tsoukas,N. Mylonopoulos
Publisher : Springer
Page : 307 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2016-01-25
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780230524545

Get Book

Organizations as Knowledge Systems by H. Tsoukas,N. Mylonopoulos Pdf

Knowledge has only recently been widely recognized as an organizational asset, the effective management of which can afford a firm competitive advantage. This book takes an interdisciplinary approach to knowledge management relating it to business strategy, dynamic capabilities and firm performance. Some of the most eminent scholars in management have contributed to this timely book, including John Seely Brown, Chris Argyris, Georg von Krogh, Soumitra Dutta, Howard Thomas and John McGee, Arie Lewin and Silvia Massini. The book offers practitioners and students alike state of the art research in the field of organizational knowledge and management