1st Edition

The Firm as an Entity Implications for Economics, Accounting and the Law

400 Pages 5 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

400 Pages 5 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

The book enhances current economic understanding of the firm as an institution and an organization, looking beyond the narrow boundaries of neoclassical economics to an interdisciplinary approach based on accounting and law as well as economics itself. It represents the first synthesis of the authors' research work on the subject and provides the groundwork for... Read more

The current state of the economic theory of the firm, Olivier Weinstein

On the first emergence of the economic theory of the firm in continental Europe, Arnaldo Canziani

The Firm between Law and Economics, Thierry Kirat

The Firm as an Entity : Management, Organisation, Accounting, Yuri Biondi

Fictions and Entities in economics of the firm and the Law, David Gindis

Law and Economics of the firm as an Entity, Federico Manfrin

The corporate Governance of the Firm as an Entity, Antoine Rebérioux

Biography

Yuri Biondi, Arnaldo Canziani, Thierry Kirat

"This multi-author volume is a useful and thought- provoking contribution to the analysis and understanding of the firm."

Michael Dietrich, University of Sheffield

"The editors and contributors to this book present a compelling body of evidence for moving toward a more holistic approach to the theory of the firm as a real entity in contrast to the contractual or agency based view common today. They propose that a holistic view is more likely to accommodate the dynamic reality of how firms behave in today’s economy."

Gregory A. Jonas, Case Western Reserve University