Entrepreneurship and the Firm

Edited by Nicolai J. Foss, Professor of Strategy and Organization, Copenhagen Business School, Denmark and Norwegian School of Economics and Business Administration, Norway and Peter G. Klein, Hankamer School of Business, Baylor University, US

• Contents: Introduction – Entrepreneurship and the Firm: Austrian Perspectives on Economic Organization Nicolai J. Foss and Peter G. Klein1. Explaining Firms Brian J. Loasby2. Modularity in Technology and Organization Richard N. Langlois3. Economic Organization in the Knowledge Economy: An Austrian Perspective Nicolai J. Foss4. Knowledge: A Challenge for the Austrian Theory of the Firm Pierre Garrouste5. Schumpeter’s and Kirzner’s Entrepreneur Reconsidered: Corporate Entrepreneurship, Subjectivism and the Need for a Theory of the Firm Wolfgang Gick6. Economic Organization and the Trade-offs between Productive and Destructive Entrepreneurship Kirsten Foss and Nicolai J. Foss7. Entrepreneurship, Contracts and the Corporate Firm: Austrian Insights on the Contractual Nature of Business Organization Stavros Ioannides8. Costs of Contracting, Psychology of Entrepreneurship and Capabilities of Firms Martti Vihanto9. Do Entrepreneurs Make Predictable Mistakes? Evidence from Corporate Divestitures Peter G. Klein and Sandra K. Klein10. Telecommunications Mergers and Theories of the Firm 11. Rents and Resources: A Market Process Perspective Jerry Ellig11. Rents and Resources: A Market Process PerspectivePeter Lewin and Steven E. Phelan12. Resource-Advantage Theory and Austrian Economics Shelby HuntIndex

'This volume is a positive contribution to Austrian economics. . . The contributors cast new light on problems that were not considered from the outset as genuine to Austrian economics: this includes theoretical problems, such as property rights, learning, and incentives, as well as empirical, and perhaps more exotic problems from an Austrian point of view, such as corporate governance and industrial organization.'