TY  - BOOK
AU  - Penrose, Edith.
AU  -  ; Pitelis,Christos.
AU  - Edith Penrose 
TI  - The Theory of the Growth of the Firm
SN  - 9780199573844
U1  - 338.83 PEN 
PY  - 2009///
CY  - Tokyo 
PB  - : Oxford University Press 
KW  - Social Science
KW  - entrepreneurship
KW  - business strategy
N2  - There are not many books that are genuine classics, and only a handful in business and management whose insights and ideas last for 50 years and more. This book is one of the very few 'must reads' for anybody seriously interested in the role of management within the firm.

Originally published in 1959, The Theory of the Growth of the Firm has illuminated and inspired thinking in strategy, entrepreneurship, knowledge creation, and innovation. 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.

For this new anniversary edition, Christos Pitelis has written a new introduction which both tells the story of Penrose's extraordinary life, and provides a balanced assessment of her key ideas and their continuing relevance and freshness
ER  -