Competence, Governance, and Entrepreneurship: Advances in Economic Strategy Research

by Nicolai Foss, Volker Mahnke

Overview

This volume brings together prominent voices on competence, governance, and entrepreneurship to advance and stimulate economic strategy research. By pooling and mobilizing intellectual resources of both competence and governance perspectives, the contributions show that an innovative joint venture between these two main perspectives can lead to a new avenue of future research on strategic issues such as 'corporate growth', 'interfirm cooperation', and 'corporate entrepreneurship.'

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780198297178
Publisher:	Oxford University Press
Publication date:	10/05/2000
Pages:	352
Product dimensions:	11.40(w) x 7.10(h) x 1.30(d)

About the Author

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

Table of Contents

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