Competence, Governance, and Entrepreneurship

Advances in Economic Strategy Research

Edited by Nicolai Foss and Volker Mahnke

This volume brings together prominent voices on competence, governance, and entrepreneurship to advance and stimulate economic strategy research. By pooling and mobilizing intellectual resources of both competence and governance perspectives, the contributions show that an innovative joint venture between these two main perspectives can lead to a new avenue of future research on strategic issues such as 'corporate growth', 'interfirm cooperation', and 'corporate entrepreneurship.'

Competence, Governance, and Entrepreneurship

Advances in Economic Strategy Research

Edited by Nicolai Foss and Volker Mahnke

Description

This volume brings together prominent voices on competence, governance, and entrepreneurship to advance and stimulate economic strategy research. By pooling and mobilizing intellectual resources of both competence and governance perspectives, the contributions show that an innovative joint venture between these two main perspectives can lead to a new avenue of future research on strategic issues such as 'corporate growth', 'interfirm cooperation', and 'corporate entrepreneurship.'

Competence, Governance, and Entrepreneurship

Advances in Economic Strategy Research

Edited by Nicolai Foss and Volker Mahnke

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

Competence, Governance, and Entrepreneurship

Advances in Economic Strategy Research

Edited by Nicolai Foss and Volker Mahnke

Author Information

Nicolai Foss is Professor in the Department of Industrial Economics and Strategy at the Copenhagen Business School. Volker Mahnke is Assistant Professor at the Copenhagen Business School.

Contributors:

Nicholas A. Argyres (Marshall School of Business, University of Southern California)
Jay B. Barney (Fisher College of Business, Ohio State University)
Mark Casson (University of Reading)
Patrick Cohendet (Universite Louis Pasteur)
Rod Coombs (Manchester School of Management, UMIST)
Giovanni Dosi (Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna, Italy)
Kirsten Foss (Copenhagen Business School)
Nicolai J. Foss (Copenhagen Business School)
Paul A. Geroski (London Business School)
Sumantra Ghoshal (London Business School)
Martin Hahn (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
Neil M. Kay (University of Strathclyde)
Woonghee Lee (Fisher College of Business, Ohio State University)
Julia Porter Liebeskind (Marshall School of Business, University of Southern California)
Patrick Llerena (Universite Louis Pasteur)
Anoop Madhok (David Eccles School of Business, USA)
Volker Mahnke (Copenhagen Business School)
Luigi Marengo (University of Trento)
J. Stanley Metcalfe (University of Manchester)
Peter Moran (London Business School)
Eric Pfaffmann (Hohenheim University)
Ron Sanchez (IMD, Lausanne)
Oliver E. Williamson (Haas School of Business, University of California at Berkeley)