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The theory of the growth of the firm

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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. --from publisher's description.

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English
Pages
249

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The theory of the growth of the firm
2009, Oxford University Press
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Oxford, New York

Table of Contents

The firm in theory
The productive opportunity of the firm and the "entrepreneur"
Expansion without merger : the receding managerial limit
"Inherited" resources and the direction of expansion
The economics of size and the economies of growth
The economics of diversification
Expansion through acquisition and merger
The rate of growth of a firm through time
The position of large and small firms in a growing economy
Growing firms in a growing economy : the process of industrial concentration and the pattern of dominance.

Edition Notes

Previous ed.: 1995.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
338.7
Library of Congress
HD69.S5 P45 2009, HD69.S5

The Physical Object

Pagination
xlix, 249 p. ;
Number of pages
249

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL25226754M
Internet Archive
theorygrowthfirm00penr_019
ISBN 10
0199573840
ISBN 13
9780199573844
LCCN
2010285736
OCLC/WorldCat
319209509

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