The theory of the growth of the firm / Edith Penrose.
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TextLanguage: English Publisher: Oxford : Oxford University Press, 1995Edition: 3. ed. with a new foreword by the authorDescription: xxiii, 272 sISBN: - 0198289782
- 0198289774
- 9780198289777
- 338.7 22
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| Item type | Current library | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode | |
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| Book (loan) | Campus Karlskrona | 338 | Available | 85001943322 |
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