The Theory of the Growth of the Firm

4. Auflage 2009
ISBN: 978-0-19-957384-4
Verlag: OUP UK

Buch, Englisch, 304 Seiten, Paperback, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 462 g

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Penrose, Edith

Weitere Mitwirkende

Pitelis, Christos

Fachgebiete

• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Volkswirtschaftslehre Volkswirtschaftslehre Allgemein Wirtschaftstheorie, Wirtschaftsphilosophie
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Betriebswirtschaft Management Unternehmensorganisation & Entwicklungsstrategien
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Betriebswirtschaft Organisationstheorie, Organisationssoziologie, Organisationspsychologie
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Betriebswirtschaft Management Unternehmensführung

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction, Christos Pitelis
Preface
1. Introduction
2. The Firm in Theory
3. The Productive Opportunity of the Firm and the 'Entrepreneur'
4. Expansion Without Merger: The Receding Managerial Limit
5. 'Inherited' Resources and the Direction of Expansion
6. The Economies of Size and the Economies of Growth
7. The Economics of Diversification
8. Expansion Through Acquisition and Merger
9. The Rate of Growth of Firms Through Time
10. The Position of Large and Small Firms in a Growing Economy
11. Growing Firms in a Growing Economy: The Process of Industrial Concentration

Über Autor(innen)

Edith Penrose, formerly at SOAS and INSEAD
Christos Pitelis, Director, Centre for International Business and Management (CIBAM), Judge Business School, Cambridge University