Penrose and Steindl: Foundations for a general theory of firms and competition

Edith Penrose and Josef Steindl each developed a distinctive analysis of the growth of firms. They undertook to understand the process that was leading to increasing dominance of industry, particularly manufacturing industry, by a small number of large firms. In the present paper, we examine the wor...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Bloch, Harry
Format: Working Paper
Published: School of Economics and Finance, Curtin Business School 2005
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/30975