The Growth of the Firm: The Legacy of Edith Penrose

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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 ...
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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.
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  • ISBN-13: 9780199248520
  • Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
  • Publication date: 5/28/2002
  • Pages: 336
  • Product dimensions: 6.20 (w) x 9.10 (h) x 0.80 (d)

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Queen's College, Cambridge
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Table of Contents

1 On the garden of Edith: some themes 1
2 Edith Elura Tilton Penrose: life, contribution and influence 17
3 Mrs Penrose and neoclassical theory 37
4 The significance of Penrose's theory for the development of economics 45
5 Edith Penrose and economics 61
6 Hercules and Penrose 81
7 The growth of new ventures: analysis after Penrose 101
8 A theory of the (growth of the) transnational firm: a Penrosean perspective 127
9 Edith Penrose: economics and strategic management 147
10 Edith T. Penrose and Ronald H. Coase on the nature of the firm and the nature of industry 165
11 Regional growth dynamics: a capabilities perspective 179
12 Mismatching by design: explaining the dynamics of innovative capabilities of the firm with a Penrosean mark 195
13 Innovation, profits and growth: Penrose and Schumpeter 215
14 The US industrial corporation and The Theory of the Growth of the Firm 249
15 Management competence, firm growth and economic progress 279
16 Edith's garden and a glass half full: further issues 309
Index 321
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