1st Edition
The Evolving Firm in the Evolving Context Coordinating Competences
By Päivi Oinas
Copyright 2010
256 Pages
by
Routledge
This volume offers a broad social scientific view of 'the firm'. Regarded as an agent of change in society, the firm is as fully conditioned by the environment in which it operates. This requires that actors participating in the evolution of firms are involved in an ongoing coordination process.
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1. Introduction 2. The Firm in a Resource-Based Perspective 3. The Externally Connected Firm 4. Resources 5. Resource Relatedness and Learning 6. Resources and Activity-Specific Relations 7. Resource Relatedness and Proximity 8. Coevolution in Multiple Contexts 9. Types of Firm 10. Concluding Discussion
Biography
Päivi Oinas is a Research Fellow at the Center for Advanced Small Business Economics (CASBEC), Erasmus University, Rotterdam.
