Chapter 1: Introduction: Advancing Research on Competence, Governance, and Entrepreneurship, Nicolai Foss and Volker Mahnke
Part I: Fundamental Perspectives
Chapter 2: Strategy Research: Competence and Governance Perspectives, Oliver Williamson
Chapter 3: The Knowledge-Based Approach and Organizational Economics: How much do they really Differ? And how does it Matter?, Kirsten Foss and Nicolai Foss
Chapter 4: On the Tangled Discourse between Transaction Cost Economics and Competence-based Views of the Firm, Giovanni Dosi and Luigi Marengo
Part II: Firm Growth and Entrepreneurship
Chapter 5: Entrepreneurship as Element in an Evolutionary Theory of the Firm, Patrick Cohendet, Patrick Llerena, and Luigi Marengo
Chapter 6: An Entrepreneurial Theory of the Firm, Mark Casson
Chapter 7: Organizing for Firm Growth: The Interaction between Resource-Accumulating and Organizing Processes, Sumantra Ghoshal, Martin Hahn, and Peter Moran
Chapter 8: The Growth of Firms in Theory and Practice, Paul Geroski
Chapter 9: The Growth of Firms, Neil Kay
Part III: The Dynamics of Governance
Chapter 10: Organizing for Innovation: Co-ordinating Distributed Innovation Capabilities, Rod Coombs and Stan Metcalfe
Chapter 11: The Role of Prior Commitment in Governance Choice, Nicholas Argyres and Julia Porter Liebeskind
Chapter 12: Knowledge Maturity, Modularity, and the Vertical Boundaries of the Firm, Erich Pfaffman
Chapter 13: Inter-firm Collaboration: Contractual and Capabilities-Based Perspectives, Anoop Madhok
Chapter 14: Multiple Considerations in Making Governance Choices: Implications of Transaction Cost Economics, Real Options Theory, and Knowledge-Based Theories of the Firm, Jay B. Barney and Wonghee Lee
Chapter 15: Demand Uncertainty and Asset Flexibility: Incorporating Strategic Options in the Theory of the Firm, Ron Sanchez