Firm growth. This concept has interested researchers for generations. Economists have sought to predict and measure firm growth using a host of different variables, while strategic management scholars depict growth as the result of clever analyses and rational resource exploitation. Entrepreneurship...

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1. Verfasser:	Korsager, Ellen Mølgaard (VerfasserIn)
Format:	Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:	English
Veröffentlicht:	London Routledge 2018
Ausgabe:	1st
Schriftenreihe:	Routledge international studies in business history
Schlagworte:	Penrose, Edith Tilton / Theory of the growth of the firm Corporations / Growth Industries / Size
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Zusammenfassung:	Firm growth. This concept has interested researchers for generations. Economists have sought to predict and measure firm growth using a host of different variables, while strategic management scholars depict growth as the result of clever analyses and rational resource exploitation. Entrepreneurship scholars - ever engrossed by successful start-ups - have pondered why growth sometimes comes fast and sometimes never at all, while the field of business history has given countless examples of growing firms in a range of different settings. Yet despite research across fields, our knowledge of how growth in a firm actually comes about is limited and we still know little about the process. This book offers a new reading of economist Edith Penrose's The Theory of the Growth of the Firm. The bold statement is that although Penrose's work - across fields and generations - is amongst the most quoted on firm growth, the basic points of her work have yet to be realized and explored empirically. Essentially, growth is created by a dynamic interrelation between the firm's self-conception and its image of context. Based on these two subjective categories, the firm makes decisions and its actions lead it to develop along a particular path. To Penrose this is the basic engine that drives the growth and development of firms. This book discusses how the engine of firm growth can be captured in empirical analysis using interpretative theory and narrative methods inspired by recent streams of research in business history
Beschreibung:	1. Introduction Penrose and the historical study of firm growth Subjectivity, entrepreneurial attitude, and image of context The creation of meaning The social nature of meaning Change and Geertz' concept of culture Thick Description and narratives The case of Fiberline and the use of empirical material 2. Founding a company and formulating a basic narrative The circumstances of the start-up Pultrusion The basic narrative of Fiberline Establishing a proper motive and a founder Naming the product and the market Specifying the production process and constructing the birth of a company 3. - Discussion The case of Fiberline and the theoretical choices I have made The study of firm growth and path dependency The study of business history The study of entrepreneurship The study of internationalization 10. Conclusion
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ISBN:	9781351395601 1351395602 9781351395618 1351395610 9781351395595 1351395599 9780203729496 0203729498