"Edith Penrose has been one of the most significant economists of the second part of the twentieth century. Her contribution to the theory of the firm has reinvented and productively developed the classical tradition in economics. It has informed the currently dominant resource/knowledge-based theory of the firm. Penrose's contribution, however, extends to a great variety of areas, to include industry organization, strategic management, international business, human resource management, economics of innovation and technological change, history, methodology, macroeconomics, and much more."
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Christos Pitelis (ed.), The growth of the firm: the legacy of Edith Penrose. (2002).
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Edith Penrose
Edith Elura Tilton Penrose (November 15, 1914 – October 11, 1996) was an American-born British economist, whose best known work is The Theory of the Growth of the Firm (1959), which describes the ways which firms grow and how fast they do.
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