{"product_id":"the-evolution-of-business-routledge-international-studies-in-business-history","title":"The Evolution of Business (Routledge International Studies in Business History)","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eBook info:\u003c\/strong\u003e The Evolution of Business (Routledge International Studies in Business History) (Paperback, 194 pages) – Routledge, 2020. Language: English.\u003c\/p\u003e\n \u003cp\u003eFirm 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eEssentially, 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis 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.\u003c\/p\u003e  \n\n                                         Editorial Reviews                   About the Author   \u003cp\u003eEllen M. Korsager is an Assistant professor of business history at the Copenhagen Business School, Denmark.\u003c\/p\u003e                                           ","brand":"Ellen Korsager","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46071099064554,"sku":"9780367733414","price":58.67,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0714\/5301\/6298\/files\/71CcshXth8L._SL1500.jpg?v=1781283397","url":"https:\/\/textbookme.store\/products\/the-evolution-of-business-routledge-international-studies-in-business-history","provider":"TextbookMe","version":"1.0","type":"link"}