The collective book we offer to the reader seeks to provide a new contribution to

the theory of the firm based on the interdisciplinary synthetic notion of entity

through new essays and reprints of the work of relevant past scholars. This overview

summarises the volume and provides the reader with a first instructive guideline.

It thus sets aside the peculiarities of each paper in order to exhibit their com-

plementarity in jointly achieving the broader scope of the collection as a whole.