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Author:   Prof. Nicolai Foss (, Director of the Learning, Incentives, and Knowledge Program, Copenhagen Business School) ,  Prof. Volker Mahnke (, Copenhagen Business School)
Publisher:   Oxford University Press
Imprint:   Oxford University Press
Dimensions:   Width: 16.30cm , Height: 2.40cm , Length: 24.20cm
Weight:   0.649kg
ISBN:  

9780198297178

ISBN 10:   0198297173
Pages:   352
Publication Date:   03 August 2000
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Nicolai Foss and Volker Mahnke: Chapter 1: Introduction: Advancing Research on Competence, Governance, and Entrepreneurship Part I: Fundamental Perspectives Oliver Williamson: Chapter 2: Strategy Research: Competence and Governance Perspectives Kirsten Foss and Nicolai Foss: Chapter 3: The Knowledge-Based Approach and Organizational Economics: How much do they really Differ? And how does it Matter? Giovanni Dosi and Luigi Marengo: Chapter 4: On the Tangled Discourse between Transaction Cost Economics and Competence-based Views of the Firm Part II: Firm Growth and Entrepreneurship Patrick Cohendet, Patrick Llerena, and Luigi Marengo: Chapter 5: Entrepreneurship as Element in an Evolutionary Theory of the Firm Mark Casson: Chapter 6: An Entrepreneurial Theory of the Firm Sumantra Ghoshal, Martin Hahn, and Peter Moran: Chapter 7: Organizing for Firm Growth: The Interaction between Resource-Accumulating and Organizing Processes Paul Geroski: Chapter 8: The Growth of Firms in Theory and Practice Neil Kay: Chapter 9: The Growth of Firms Part III: The Dynamics of Governance Rod Coombs and Stan Metcalfe: Chapter 10: Organizing for Innovation: Co-ordinating Distributed Innovation Capabilities Nicholas Argyres and Julia Porter Liebeskind: Chapter 11: The Role of Prior Commitment in Governance Choice Erich Pfaffman: Chapter 12: Knowledge Maturity, Modularity, and the Vertical Boundaries of the Firm Anoop Madhok: Chapter 13: Inter-firm Collaboration: Contractual and Capabilities-Based Perspectives Jay B. Barney and Wonghee Lee: Chapter 14: Multiple Considerations in Making Governance Choices: Implications of Transaction Cost Economics, Real Options Theory, and Knowledge-Based Theories of the Firm Ron Sanchez: Chapter 15: Demand Uncertainty and Asset Flexibility: Incorporating Strategic Options in the Theory of the Firm

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This book has authority ... is a well-presented and informative reference book. Financial Adviser

This book has authority ... is a well-presented and informative reference book. * Financial Adviser *

Author Information

Nicolai Foss is Professor in the Department of Industrial Economics and Strategy at the Copenhagen Business School. Volker Mahnke is Associate Professor at the Copenhagen Business School.

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