Competence, Governance, and Entrepreneurship

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

• Chapter 1: Introduction: Advancing Research on Competence, Governance, and Entrepreneurship ; PART I: FUNDAMENTAL PERSPECTIVES ; Chapter 2: Strategy Research: Competence and Governance Perspectives ; Chapter 3: The Knowledge-Based Approach and Organizational Economics: How much do they really Differ? And how does it Matter? ; Chapter 4: On the Tangled Discourse between Transaction Cost Economics and Competence-based Views of the Firm ; PART II: FIRM GROWTH AND ENTREPRENEURSHIP ; Chapter 5: Entrepreneurship as Element in an Evolutionary Theory of the Firm ; Chapter 6: An Entrepreneurial Theory of the Firm ; Chapter 7: Organizing for Firm Growth: The Interaction between Resource-Accumulating and Organizing Processes ; Chapter 8: The Growth of Firms in Theory and Practice ; Chapter 9: The Growth of Firms ; PART III: THE DYNAMICS OF GOVERNANCE ; Chapter 10: Organizing for Innovation: Co-ordinating Distributed Innovation Capabilities ; Chapter 11: The Role of Prior Commitment in Governance Choice ; Chapter 12: Knowledge Maturity, Modularity, and the Vertical Boundaries of the Firm ; Chapter 13: Inter-firm Collaboration: Contractual and Capabilities-Based Perspectives ; Chapter 14: Multiple Considerations in Making Governance Choices: Implications of Transaction Cost Economics, Real Options Theory, and Knowledge-Based Theories of the Firm ; Chapter 15: Demand Uncertainty and Asset Flexibility: Incorporating Strategic Options in the Theory of the Firm

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