Organizing Entrepreneurial Judgment - A New Approach to the Firm

Informationen zum Autor Nicolai J. Foss is Professor of Strategy and Organization at the Copenhagen Business School and Professor of Knowledge-based Value Creation at the Norwegian School of Economics and Business Administration. He also holds a number of part-time and visiting professorships at other European universities. Peter G. Klein is Associate Professor of Applied Social Sciences and Director of the McQuinn Center for Entrepreneurial Leadership at the University of Missouri. He also holds positions at the University of Missouri's Truman School of Public Affairs and the Norwegian School of Economics and Business Administration. Klappentext Develops an entrepreneurial theory of the firm that focuses on the connections between entrepreneurship and management. Zusammenfassung Drawing on insights from Austrian economics! this book shows how judgment is the key to understanding firm performance and organization. It fills an important gap in the literature by developing an entrepreneurial theory of the firm that focuses on the connections between entrepreneurship and management. Inhaltsverzeichnis List of figures; Preface; Acknowledgements; 1. The need for an entrepreneurial theory of the firm; 2. What is entrepreneurship?; 3. Entrepreneurship: from opportunity discovery to judgment; 4. What is judgment?; 5. From shmoo to heterogeneous capital; 6. Entrepreneurship and the economic theory of the firm; 7. Entrepreneurship and the nature and boundaries of the firm; 8. Internal organization: original and derived judgment; 9. Concluding discussion; References.

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• Authors: Nicolai J Foss, Nicolai J. Foss, Nicolai J. (Copenhagen Business School) Foss, Nicolai J. (Copenhagen Business School) Klei Foss, Nicolai J. Klein Foss, Foss Nicolai J., Peter G. Klein, Peter G. (University of Missouri Klein, Klein Peter G.
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.03.2012
• EAN: 9780521874427
• ISBN: 978-0-521-87442-7
• No. of pages: 312
• Subjects: Guides > Law, job, finance; Social sciences, law, business > Business > Business administration; BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Entrepreneurship, Entrepreneurship, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Industrial Management, Economics of industrial organisation, Economics of industrial organization, Entrepreneurship / Start-ups