Routledge Studies in Business Organizations and Networks
About the Book Series
How do firms work? What networks are involved in driving organizations forward? This series presents titles which look at the dynamics of organizations and the particular effects of different types of business networks. It covers topics such as:
- Industrial networks
- Transaction cost economics
- Organization theory
- Change and information
- New theories of the firm.
It considers both the economic, cultural and environmental factors that govern the success and failure of business networks and organizations.
Organizing Industrial Activities Across Firm Boundaries
1st Edition
By Anna Dubois
March 10, 1998
The way in which industrial activities are organised among firms is a fundamental theoretical concern. In practice, firms have found these matters, referred to as make-or-buy issues, difficult to analyse. Organising Industrial Activities Across Firm Boundaries succeeds in combining an analysis of ...
Towards a Competence Theory of the Firm
1st Edition
Edited
By Nicolai Foss, Christian Knudsen
October 22, 1996
This book explores a new theory of the firm produced through an exchange between management theory and economics. In the process economics is seen to provide a foundational element for strategy research whilst developing a more realistic theory of the firm with a greater emphasis on its internal ...