Competence, Governance, and Entrepreneurship Advances in Economic Strategy Research

by Foss, Nicolai; Mahnke, Volker

• ISBN13: 9780199259816
• ISBN10: 019925981X
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2002-12-26
• Publisher: Oxford University Press

Summary

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.'

Author Biography

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

List of Figures	ix
List of Tables	x
List of Contributors	xi
Advancing Research on Competence, Governance, and Entrepreneurship	1	(20)
Nicolai Foss
Volker Mahnke
Part A: Fundamental Perspectives
Strategy Research: Competence and Governance Perspectives	21	(34)
Oliver E. Williamson
The Knowledge-Based Approach and Organizational Economics: How much do they really Differ? And how does it Matter?	55	(25)
Kirsten Foss
Nicolai Foss
On the Tangled Discourse between Transaction Cost Economics and Competence-Based Views of the Firm	80	(15)
Giovanni Dosi
Luigi Marengo
Part B: Firm Growth and Entrepreneurship
Is there a Pilot in the Evolutionary Firm?	95	(21)
Patrick Cohendet
Patrick Llerena
Luigi Marengo
An Entrepreneurial Theory of the Firm	116	(30)
Mark Casson
Organizing for Firm Growth: The Interaction between Resource-Accumulating and Organizing Processes	146	(22)
Sumantra Ghoshal
Martin Hahn
Peter Moran
The Growth of Firms in Theory and Practice	168	(19)
Paul A. Geroski
The Growth of Firms	187	(22)
Neil Kay
Part C: The Dynamics of Governance
Organizing for Innovation: Co-ordinating Distributed Innovation Capabilities	209	(23)
Rod Coombs
J. Stan Metcalfe
The Role of Prior Commitment in Governance Choice	232	(18)
Nicholas Argyres
Julia Porter Liebeskind
Knowledge Maturity of Products, Modularity, and the Vertical Boundaries of the Firm	250	(26)
Eric Pfaffmann
Inter-Firm Collaboration: Contractual and Capabilities-Based Perspectives	276	(28)
Anoop Madhok
Multiple Considerations in Making Governance Choices: Implications of Transaction Cost Economics, Real Options Theory, and Knowledge-Based Theories of the Firm	304	(14)
Jay B. Barney
Woonghee Lee
Demand Uncertainty and Asset Flexibility: Incorporating Strategic Options in the Theory of the Firm	318	(15)
Ron Sanchez
Index	333