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The Changing Boundaries of the Firm: Explaining Evolving Inter-firm Relations (Routledge Studies in Business Organizations and Networks)
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Product Description
This book offers a distinctive analysis of the relations and interplay between the internal activities of firms, their changing boundaries and increasing reliance on networks and alliances with other firms.
Product Details
- Amazon Sales Rank: #3975129 in Books
- Published on: 1998-09-03
- Original language: English
- Number of items: 1
- Binding: Hardcover
- 288 pages
Editorial Reviews
Review
'This volume offers a splendid mixture of theoretical discussion and empirical research It is a well edited and compiled study on the inter-firm relationship from a fresh perspective, combining interesting and theoretical discussions with analytical chapters - Business History 41:4,Oct 99
From the Back Cover
This book offers a distinctive analysis of the relations and interplay between the internal activities of firms, their changing boundaries, and increasing reliance on networks and alliances with other firms.
The volume is the result of works conducted in connection with the research programme of the European Science Foundation on 'European Management and Organisation in Transition', devoted to the analysis of changing forms of economic organisation in Europe. The contributors offer a blend of theoretical and empirical studies; they are based on a set of related perspectives in modern economics, including transaction cost economics, competence and resource-based theories of the firm, evolutionary economics, and theories of foreign direct investments and the multinational enterprise. The unifying concern shared by the different studies is the need to model firm behaviour and interim co-operative activities in terms of knowledge growth and competence building rather than merely in terms of cost reduction; they emphasise learning processes and dynamic efficiency rather than efficient allocation of given resources.
About the Author
John H. Dunning, Rutgers University, USA and University of Reading, UK; Christos Pitelis, Judge Institute of Management Studies, UK; Michel Delapierre, Universite de Paris X, France; Lynn Mytelka, UNCTAD, Switzerland; Neil Kay, University of Strathclyde, UK; Jean Francois Hennart, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA; Sabine Reddy, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA; Massimo G. Colombo, CIRET Polytechnic of Milan, Italy; Paola Garrone, Polytechnic of Milan, Italy; John Cantwell, University of Reading, UK; Ivana Paniccia, University of Reading, UK; Bart Nooteboom, University of Groningen, The Netherlands; Susan Helper, Case Western Reserve University, Ohio, USA; Emilio Esposito, Universita degli Studi di Napoli Federico II, Italy; Mario Raffa, Universita degli Studi di Napoli Federico II, Italy
