ABSTRACT
This book explores a new theory of the firm produced through an exchange between management theory and economics. In the process economics is seen to provide a foundational element for strategy research whilst developing a more realistic theory of the firm with a greater emphasis on its internal features. The success of competence theories of the firm also reflects their ability to explain significant trends in the business world, notably the declining importance of conglomerates and critical features in the success of Asian and Japanese business.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
chapter 7|22 pages
Analysing the Technology Base of the Firm
A multi-dimensional resource and competence perspective
chapter 8|17 pages
Studies of Key Factors of Product-Development Success
A resource-based critique and reinterpretation
chapter 9|25 pages
The Impact of Foreign Acquisition on the Evolution of Danish Firms
A competence-based perspective
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