Entrepreneurship and the firm : Austrian perspectives on economic organization 1. Explaining firms Brian J. Loasby 2. Modularity in technology and organization Richard N. Langlois 3. Economic organization in the knowledge economy : an Austrian perspective Nicolai J. Foss 4. Knowledge : a challenge for the Austrian theory of the firm Pierre Garrouste 5. Schumpeters and Kirzners entrepreneur reconsidered : corporate entrepreneurship subjectivism and the need for a theory of the firm Wolfgang Gick 6. Economic organization and the trade offs between productive and destructive entrepreneurship Kirsten Foss and Nicolai J. Foss 7. Entrepreneurship contracts and the corporate firm : Austrian insights on the contractual nature of business organization Stavros Ioannides 8. Costs of contracting psychology of entrepreneurship and capabilities of firms Martti Vihanto 9. Do entrepreneurs make predictable mistakes : evidence from corporate divestitures Peter G. Klein and Sandra K. Klein 10. Telecommunications mergers and theories of the firm 11. Rents and resources : a market process perspective Jerry Ellig 11. Rents and resources : a market process perspective Peter Lewin and Steven E. Phelan 12. Resource advantage theory and Austrian economics Shelby Hunt While characteristically Austrian themes such as entrepreneurship economic calculation tacit knowledge and the temporal structure of capital are clearly relevant to the business firm Austrian economists have said relatively little about management organization and strategy. This innovative book features 12 chapters that all seek to advance the understanding of these issues by drawing on Austrian ideas