The theory of the growth of the firm
By: Edith Penrose ; with a new introduction by Christos N. Pitelis
Edition: 4th ed., Rev. ed.
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Oxford; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 249
ISBN-13: 9780199573844
Subjects: Industries; Unternehmenswachstum; Size
Description: 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.
Notes: Previous ed.: 1995.

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