The Growth of the Firm

TRAMA

Edith Penrose has been one of the most significant economists of the second part of the twentieth century. Her contribution to the theory of the firm has reinvented and productively developed the classical tradition in economics, and informed the currently dominant, knowledge-based theory of the firm. This volume builds on a special issue of Contributions to Political Economy that celebrated forty years since Penrose's classic The Theory of the Growth of the Firm. It includes fifteen chapters by leading contributors on the aforementioned aspects of Penrose's work.

SOMMARIO

1. - Introduction and Overview2. - Edith Elura Tilton Penrose: Life, contribution, and influence3. - Mrs Penrose and Neoclassical Theory4. - The Significance of Penrose's Theory for the Development of Economics5. - Edith Penrose and Economics6. - Hercules and Penrose7. - The Growth of New Ventures: Analysis after Penrose8. - A Theory of the (Growth of the) Transnational Firm: A Penrosean perspective9. - Edith Penrose, Economics, and Strategic Management10. - Edith T. Penrose and Ronald H. Coase on the Nature of the Firm and the Nature of Industry11. - Regional Growth Dynamics: A capabilities perspective12. - Mismatching by Design: Explaining the dynamics of innovative capabilities of the firm with a Penrosean mark13. - Innovation, Profits, and Growth: Penrose and Schumpeter14. - The US Corporate Enterprise and 'The Theory of the Growth of the Firm'15. - Management Competence, Firm Growth, and Economic Progress

AUTORE

Christos Pitelis is Director of the Centre for International Business and Management at the Judge Institute of Management Studies, Cambridge University. He is also Director of Studies in Management and Fellow in Economics at Queens' College, Cambridge. He has taught at the universities of Warwick, Nottingham, St. Andrews, and Athens, and has been visiting professor in China, Eastern Europe, and Latin America. He has consulted extensively and coordinated projects for governments, the European Commission, the United Nations, the Commonwealth Secretariat, and the private sector. He has been adviser to the Greek Minister of Industry and Development. He is author and editor of ten books, over seventy articles in academic journals and books, and has contributed papers to more than sixty conferences worldwide.

ALTRE INFORMAZIONI

• Condizione: Nuovo
• ISBN: 9780199244164
• Dimensioni: 242 x 23.1 x 164 mm Ø 625 gr
• Formato: Copertina rigida
• Illustration Notes: 10 figures
• Pagine Arabe: 336