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The theory of the growth of the firm / Edith Penrose.

By: Material type: TextTextLanguage: English Publisher: Oxford : Oxford University Press, 1995Edition: 3. ed. with a new foreword by the authorDescription: xxiii, 272 sISBN:
  • 0198289782
  • 0198289774
  • 9780198289777
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 338.7 22
Other classification:
  • Qb:d
  • Qaacc
Contents:
Foreword / Edith Penrose -- I. Introduction -- II. The Firm in Theory -- III. The Productive Opportunity of the Firm and the 'Entrepreneur' -- IV. Expansion Without Merger: The Receding Managerial Limit -- V. 'Inherited' Resources and the Direction of Expansion -- VI. The Economies of Size and the Economies of Growth -- VII. The Economics of Diversification -- VIII. Expansion Through Acquisition and Merger -- IX. The Rate of Growth of Firms Through Time -- X. The Position of Large and Small Firms in a Growing Economy -- XI. Growing Firms in a Growing Economy: The Process of Industrial Concentration and the Pattern of Dominance
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Foreword / Edith Penrose -- I. Introduction -- II. The Firm in Theory -- III. The Productive Opportunity of the Firm and the 'Entrepreneur' -- IV. Expansion Without Merger: The Receding Managerial Limit -- V. 'Inherited' Resources and the Direction of Expansion -- VI. The Economies of Size and the Economies of Growth -- VII. The Economics of Diversification -- VIII. Expansion Through Acquisition and Merger -- IX. The Rate of Growth of Firms Through Time -- X. The Position of Large and Small Firms in a Growing Economy -- XI. Growing Firms in a Growing Economy: The Process of Industrial Concentration and the Pattern of Dominance

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