Buch, Englisch, 288 Seiten, Print PDF, Format (B × H): 161 mm x 240 mm, Gewicht: 599 g
Spatial and Organizational Dimensions
Buch, Englisch, 288 Seiten, Print PDF, Format (B × H): 161 mm x 240 mm, Gewicht: 599 g
ISBN: 978-0-19-926079-9
Verlag: OUP Oxford
Firms are at the very heart of modern day life. They come in a seemingly infinite variety - from transnationals to small firm, from corporations to branch plants, to subsidiaries and joint ventures, from subcontractors to franchisees, from sole proprietorships to partnerships, from manufacturers to service providers and retailers. For the most part we view them as the creators, destroyers, and repositories of jobs - the creators and destroyers of people's livelihoods, lives, and dreams. But, deciding just what a firm is is neither a simple nor a straightforward task.
Against a background of the dynamic complexity and plurality that business forms (and firms) can assume, there is a constant search within academic research for the processes that create and maintain both enterprise and enterprises in capitalist societies: a search for a theory of the firm.
This book addresses some of the gaps in the current state of the theory of the firm from an economic geography perspective: issues around the boundaries of the firm; the collective agency of the firm; the political firm, financial markets, and the state; and the firm in place.
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- Part I: Theorising the Firm - Introduction
- 1: Michael Taylor: Fragments and Gaps: Exploring the Theory of the Firm
- Part II: The Boundaries of the Firm
- 2: Päivi Oinas: The Many Boundaries of the Firm
- 3: Michael Taylor and John Bryson: Guns, Firms, and Contracts: The Evolution of Gun-Making in Birmingham
- Part III: Collective Agency and Narratives on Performance
- 4: Michael Taylor: The Firm: Coalitions, Communities and Collective Agency
- 5: Phillip O'Neill: The Corporation, Shareholder Value Added and the Power of Financial Management Narratives
- Part IV: The 'Political' Firm and the State
- 6: Ann Markusen: Distortions in Industrial Geography: Triangulating Among Industrial Firms, and the State
- 7: Ray Hudson: Firms as Political Actors in Processes of Capital Accumulation and Regional Development
- Part V: The Firm in Place
- 8: Mia Gray: An Activity Specific Approach to the High-Tech Firm
- 9: Bjørn T. Asheim: Learning Firms in Learning Regions: Innovation, Cooperation and Social Capital
- Part IV: Theorising the Firm - Afterword
- 10: Päivi Oinas: Theorising the Firm in Economic Geography and Why It Matters
