Browsing by Author/Contributor "Foss, Nicolai J., 1964-"

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  • Entrepreneurship and the Economic Theory of the Firm: Any Gains from Trade? 

    Foss, Nicolai J., 1964-; Klein, Peter G. (University of Missouri-Columbia, 2004)
    Though they developed in isolation, the theory of entrepreneurship and the economic theory of the firm can be usefully integrated. In particular, the concept of entrepreneurship as judgment associated with Knight (1921) ...

  • Heterogeneous Capital, Entrepreneurship, and Economic Organization 

    Foss, Nicolai J., 1964-; Foss, Kirsten; Klein, Peter G.; Klein, Sandra K. (2002-11)
    We outline an Austrian approach to economic organization based on the entrepreneur and the Austrian idea of capital as heterogeneous and time-dimensioned, two themes associated with Israel Kirzner's contributions. We provide ...

  • Organizational Governance 

    Foss, Nicolai J., 1964-; Klein, Peter G. (Russell Sage Foundation, 2008)
    This chapter reviews and discusses rational-choice approaches to organizational governance. These approaches are found primarily in organizational economics (virtually no rational-choice organizational sociology exists), ...

  • The theory of the firm and its critics: a stocktaking and assessment 

    Foss, Nicolai J., 1964-; Klein, Peter G. (Cambridge University Press, 2005)
    Since its emergence in the 1970s the modern economic or Coasian theory of the firm has been discussed and challenged by sociologists, heterodox economists, management scholars, and other critics. This chapter reviews and ...