Competence, Governance, and Entrepreneurship

Nicolai Foss is Professor of Economic Organization and Director of the Learning, Incentives, and Knowledge Program at the Copenhagen Business School. His research interests centre around the theory of the firm and strategic management. He has published extensively in academic journals and has also edited a number of volumes on economic organization and firm strategy. Volker Mahnke is Associate Professor at the Department of Industrial Economics and Strategy at the Copenhagen Business School. He is project leader for 'The Economics of Knowledge Management and Product Innovation in Buyer/Supplier Systems'. His research interests include the knowledge-based theory of the firm, strategy process, and the impact of knowledge structures on corporate performance.

1. Advancing Research on Competence, Governance, and Entrepreneurship ; PART I: FUNDAMENTAL PERSPECTIVES ; 2. Strategy Research: Competence and Governance Perspectives ; 3. The Knowledge-Based Approach and Organizational Economics: How much do they really Differ? And how does it Matter? ; 4. On the Tangled Discourse between Transaction Cost Economics and Competence-based Views of the Firm ; PART II: FIRM GROWTH AND ENTREPRENEURSHIP ; 5. Is there a Pilot in the Evolutionary Firm? ; 6. An Entrepreneurial Theory of the Firm ; 7. Organizing for Firm Growth: The Interaction between Resource-Accumulating and Organizing Processes ; 8. The Growth of Firms in Theory and Practice ; 9. The Growth of Firms ; PART III: THE DYNAMICS OF GOVERNANCE ; 10. Organizing for Innovation: Co-ordinating Distributed Innovation Capabilities ; 11. The Role of Prior Commitment in Governance Choice ; 12. Knowledge Maturity of Products, Modularity, and the Vertical Boundaries of the Firm ; 13. Inter-firm Collaboration: Contractual and Capabilities-Based Perspectives ; 14. Multiple Considerations in Making Governance Choices: Implications of Transaction Cost Economics, Real Options Theory, and Knowledge-Based Theories of the Firm ; 15. Demand Uncertainty and Asset Flexibility: Incorporating Strategic Options in the Theory of the Firm