{"product_id":"the-evolution-of-business-interpretative-theory-history-and-firm-growth-1","title":"Evolution of Business","description":"\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\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\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\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","brand":"Taylor \u0026 Francis Ltd","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54179507503448,"sku":null,"price":192.2,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0278\/1295\/4195\/files\/9781138301245_9d88915e-26a5-462d-ae10-35f4ba7ef7fb.jpg?v=1777266960","url":"https:\/\/agendabookshop.com\/products\/the-evolution-of-business-interpretative-theory-history-and-firm-growth-1","provider":"Agenda Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}