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The theory of the growth of the firm
- Title
- The theory of the growth of the firm / Edith Penrose ; with a new introduction by Christos N. Pitelis.
- Author
- Penrose, Edith Tilton.
- Publication
- Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2009.
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Details
- Description
- xlix, 249 p.; 24 cm.
- Subject
- Note
- Previous ed.: 1995.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Contents
- The firm in theory -- The productive opportunity of the firm and the "entrepreneur" -- Expansion without merger : the receding managerial limit -- "Inherited" resources and the direction of expansion -- The economics of size and the economies of growth -- The economics of diversification -- Expansion through acquisition and merger -- The rate of growth of a firm through time -- The position of large and small firms in a growing economy -- Growing firms in a growing economy : the process of industrial concentration and the pattern of dominance.
- Call Number
- JBE 10-367
- ISBN
- 9780199573844 (pbk.)
- 0199573840 (pbk.)
- OCLC
- 319209509
- Author
- Penrose, Edith Tilton.
- Title
- The theory of the growth of the firm / Edith Penrose ; with a new introduction by Christos N. Pitelis.
- Imprint
- Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2009.
- Edition
- 4th ed., Rev. ed.
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Research Call Number
- JBE 10-367