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020 _a9780199573844
040 _cIIT Kanpur
041 _aeng
082 _a338.7
_bP386t4
100 _aPenrose, Edith
245 0 _aTheory of the growth of the firm
_bwith a new introduction by Christos N. Pitelis
_cEdith Penrose
250 _a4th ed
260 _aNew York
_bOxford University Press
_c2009
300 _axlix, 249p
505 _aThe 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.
520 _a Edith Penrose's tightly argued classic laid the foundations for the resource based view of the firm, now the dominant framework in business strategy She analyses managerial activities and decisions, organizational routines, and also the factors that inevitably limit a firm's growth prospects. --from publisher's description.
650 _aIndustries--Size.
653 _aUnternehmenswachstum(Merger -- Growing economy)
942 _cBK
999 _c366093
_d366093