Author: Nicolai J. Foss
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Keywords: perspective, oxford, management, readers, based, resource, firms, strategies, reader, resources
Number of Pages: 400
Published: 1998-02-26
List price: $65.00
ISBN-10: 0198781792
ISBN-13: 9780198781790

Strategic management has been increasingly characterized by an emphasis on core competences. Firms are advised to divest unrelated businesses and return to core business. Moreover, competitive advantage is now increasingly seen as a matter of efficiently deploying scarce knowledge resources to product markets. Much of this change in emphasis has occurred because of the emergence of a unified and rigorous approach to strategy, often called the resource-based approach. This Reader brings together extracts from the seminal articles that created this dominant perspective in strategic management. I

Author: Nicolai Foss
Publisher: Routledge
Keywords: persp, crit, firm, theories
Number of Pages: 480
Published: 2004-11-11
List price: unknow
ISBN-10: 0415196388
ISBN-13: 9780415196383

This collection features all of the major literature published on the theory of the firm between 1942-1998 Includes over 60 classic papers by leading thinkers in the field such as Coase, Holstrom, Aghion and Tirole, and many others.

Authors:Nicolai J. Foss, Peter G. Klein,
Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing
Keywords: economic, organization, perspectives, austrian, firm, entrepreneurship
Number of Pages: 320
Published: 2002-12
List price: $135.00
ISBN-10: 1840646608
ISBN-13: 9781840646603

While characteristically ‘Austrian’ themes such as entrepreneurship, economic calculation, tacit knowledge and the temporal structure of capital are clearly relevant to the business firm, Austrian economists have said relatively little about management, organization, and strategy. This innovative book features 12 chapters that all seek to advance the understanding of these issues by drawing on Austrian ideas. Building on existing research in transaction cost economics, agency theory, evolutionary economics and the resource-based theory of the firm, the authors cover a wide range of the

Authors:Nicolai Foss, Volker Mahnke,
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Keywords: strategy, research, economic, advances, governance, entrepreneurship, competence
Number of Pages: 352
Published: 2002-12-26
List price: $65.00
ISBN-10: 019925981X
ISBN-13: 9780199259816

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.’

Authors:Nicolai J. Foss, Christian Knudsen,
Publisher: Routledge
Keywords: business, organizations, networks, studies, routledge, competence, theory, firm, towards
Number of Pages: 216
Published: 1996-10-22
List price: $190.00
ISBN-10: 0415144728
ISBN-13: 9780415144728

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 features. The success of competence theories of the firm also reflects their ability to explain significant trends in the business world, notably the declining importance of conglomerates and critical features in the success of Asian and Japanese business.

Authors:Karen A. Foss, Dr. Sonja K. Foss, Cindy Griffin,
Publisher: Sage Publications, Inc
Keywords: feminist, communication, perspectives, theories, rhetorical
Number of Pages: 400
Published: 1999-02-23
List price: $50.95
ISBN-10: 076190347X
ISBN-13: 9780761903475

Authors:Sonja K. Foss, Robert Trapp, Karen A. Foss,
Publisher: Waveland Press
Keywords: rhetoric, contemporary, readings
Number of Pages: 408
Published: 2001-08
List price: $35.95
ISBN-10: 1577662067
ISBN-13: 9781577662068

These 25 selections allow the reader to sample the multiple voices contributing to the creation of knowledge through rhetoric. Exposure to the theorists’ ideas in their own words provides a richer, more meaningful understanding. While the same number of pages are devoted to each theorist, in some cases one lengthy essay is included that captures the core ideas of a theorist; in other instances, several examples are offered. The extensive bibliography of works about the theorists included in the anthology is a valuable resource.