Handbook on the economics and theory of the firm

PART I: INTRODUCTION

1. The Economics and Theory of the Firm / Michael Dietrich and Jackie Krafft

PART II: BACKGROUND

2. The Obscure Firm in the Wealth of Nations / Michael H. Best

3. Marx Ugo Pagano

4. Alfred Marshall and the Marshallian Theory of the Firm / Jacques-Laurent Ravix

5. Veblen, Commons and the Theory of the Firm / Geoffrey M. Hodgson

6. Schumpeter / Gerhard Hanappi

7. Berle and Means / Cécile Cézanne

8. John Kenneth Galbraith and the Theory of the Firm / Stephen P. Dunn

9. Managerial Theories: Baumol and Marris / Olivier Weinstein

10. Behavioural Theory / Peter E. Earl

PART III: EQUILIBRIUM AND NEW INSTITUTIONAL THEORIES

11. Agency Theory, Corporate Governance and Finance / Hong Bo and Ciaran Driver

12. Hybrid Governance / Albert Jolink and Eva Niesten

13. Transaction Cost Empirical Work / Richard Carter

PART IV: THE MULTINATIONAL FIRM

14. The Multinational Firm: Characteristics, Activities and Explanations in Historical Context / Grazia Ietto-Gillies

15. Internationalization Theory / Mark Casson and Nigel Wadeson

16. The Japanese Firm: From the Analysis of a Model to the Understanding of its Increasing Heterogeneity / Sébastien Lechevalier

17. The European Firm / Alessandra Colombelli and Francesco Quatraro

PART V: DYNAMIC APPROACHES TO THE FIRM

18. Edith Penrose and George Richardson / Brian J. Loasby

19. Nelson and Winter Revisited / Markus C. Becker and Thorbjørn Knudsen

20. Modern Resource-based Theory(ies) / Nicolai J. Foss and Nils Stieglitz

21. Cognitive Theory of the Firm: A Pragmatic Perspective / Bart Nooteboom

PART VI: MODERN ISSUES

22. Revisiting Chandler on the Theory of the Firm / Steven Toms and John F. Wilson

23. Financialization and the Firm / Michel Aglietta and Antoine Rebérioux

24. Firm Growth: Empirical Analysis / Alex Coad and Werner Hölzl

25. Corporate Governance, Innovative Enterprise, and Executive Pay / William Lazonick

26. Innovative Platforms, Complexity and the Knowledge-Intensive Firm / Pier Paolo Patrucco

27. Small Firms and Industrial Districts / Marco Bellandi and Lisa De Propris

PART VII: FIRM STRATEGIES

28. Mergers and Acquisitions and Firm Performance / Myriam Cloodt and John Hagedoorn

29. R&D and the Firm / Pier Paolo Saviotti

30. Creating Novelty through Vertical Relationships between Groups of Complementary Players / Martin Fransman

31. Product Innovation when Consumers have Switching Costs / Evens Salies

32. Modularity and its Implications for the Theory of the Firm / Andreas Reinstaller

33. Innovation Networks / Tobias Buchmann and Andreas Pyka

PART VIII: ECONOMIC POLICY AND THE FIRM

34. Cartel and Monopoly Policy / Hugues Bouthinon-Dumas and Frédéric Marty

35. R&D and Industrial Policy: Policies to Coordinate Investments in Research under Radical Uncertainty / Jean-Luc Gaffard, Sarah Guillou and Lionel Nesta

36. Public Policy in an Entrepreneurial Society / Zoltan J. Acs

37. The Regulated Firm in Liberalized Network Industries / Aad Correljé, John Groenewegen and Jan Jaap Bouma

38. From the Corporation to Venture Capitalism: New Surrogate Markets for Knowledge and Innovation-led Economic Growth / Cristiano Antonelli and Morris Teubal.