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100	1		_aKorsager, Ellen, _eauthor.
245	1	4	_aThe Evolution of Business : _bInterpretative Theory, History and Firm Growth / _cby Ellen Korsager.
250			_aFirst edition.
264		1	_aBoca Raton, FL : _bRoutledge, _c2018.
300			_a1 online resource (206 pages) : _b2 illustrations, text file, PDF.
336			_atext _2rdacontent
337			_acomputer _2rdamedia
338			_aonline resource _2rdacarrier
490	1		_aRoutledge International Studies in Business History
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505	0	0	_t1. Introduction -- _tPenrose and the historical study of firm growth -- _tSubjectivity, entrepreneurial attitude, and image of context -- _tThe creation of meaning -- _tThe social nature of meaning -- _tChange and Geertz concept of culture -- _tThick Description and narratives -- _tThe case of Fiberline and the use of empirical material -- _t2. Founding a company and formulating a basic narrative -- _tThe circumstances of the start-up -- _tPultrusion -- _tThe basic narrative of Fiberline -- _tEstablishing a proper motive and a founder -- _tNaming the product and the market -- _tSpecifying the production process and constructing the birth of a company -- _t3. The prior experience of Henrik Thorning and the context of the Start-up -- _tThe plastic industry in Denmark in the 1970s and start 80s -- _tThe development of the composite industry in Denmark -- _tEnvironmental concerns and organizing the industry -- _tDukadan and Henrik Thornings two years working there -- _tJotun -- _tInnovation in the Danish plastic industry -- _t4. Putting resources to service and strengthening the basic narrative in the start-up process -- _tGetting started -- _tThe first sales -- _tThe everydayness of acute problems -- _t -- _t5. How should the profiles of Fiberline be sold? -- _tPressure building -- _tStrong export growth of the Danish plastic industry -- _tA gradual focus on sales -- _tStandard profiles and distributors -- _tThe origins of the international focus -- _tThe narrative of how profiles should be sold and to whom -- _t6. The efforts of financing and opportunities for growth -- _tContinued pressure after 1983 -- _tFinancing behavior over time -- _tBootstrapping and effectuation in financing behavior -- _t7. Productive opportunities and technological base -- _tThe growth of Fiberline and of the Danish plastic industry from the mid-1980s until the late 1990s -- _tExternal inducements to diversification - Processed profiles and systems -- _tInternal inducements to diversification phenol based profiles and construction profiles -- _t8. Market focus and developing the sales organization -- _tThe composites industry around the turn of the millennium -- _tSeven good years of development and organization building -- _tEstablishing the sales organization -- _tDiversification and uncertainty -- _tSales and strategic plans in the early 1990s -- _tOperational systems and the strategic plans in the late 1990s -- _t9. Discussion -- _tThe case of Fiberline and the theoretical choices I have made -- _tThe study of firm growth and path dependency -- _tThe study of business history -- _tThe study of entrepreneurship -- _tThe study of internationalization -- _t10. Conclusion
520	3		_aFirm growth. This concept has interested researchers for generations. Economists have sought to predict and measure firm growth using a host of different variables, while strategic management scholars depict growth as the result of clever analyses and rational resource exploitation. Entrepreneurship scholars - ever engrossed by successful start-ups - have pondered why growth sometimes comes fast and sometimes never at all, while the field of business history has given countless examples of growing firms in a range of different settings. Yet despite research across fields, our knowledge of how growth in a firm actually comes about is limited and we still know little about the process.This book offers a new reading of economist Edith Penrose's The Theory of the Growth of the Firm. The bold statement is that although Penrose's work - across fields and generations - is amongst the most quoted on firm growth, the basic points of her work have yet to be realized and explored empirically.Essentially, growth is created by a dynamic interrelation between the firm's self-conception and its image of context. Based on these two subjective categories, the firm makes decisions and its actions lead it to develop along a particular path. To Penrose this is the basic engine that drives the growth and development of firms.This book discusses how the engine of firm growth can be captured in empirical analysis using interpretative theory and narrative methods inspired by recent streams of research in business history.
530			_aAlso available in print format.
650		0	_aNew business enterprises.
650		0	_aSmall business _xPlanning.
650		0	_aSmall business _xFinance.
650		0	_aCorporations _xGrowth.
650		7	_aBUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Entrepreneurship. _2bisacsh
650		7	_aBUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Development / Economic Development. _2bisacsh
650		7	_aEconomic development. _2bisacsh
650		7	_aEntrepreneurship. _2bisacsh
650		7	_aGrowth of the Firm. _2bisacsh
650		7	_ainterpretative theory. _2bisacsh
655		0	_aElectronic books.
710	2		_aTaylor and Francis.
776	0	8	_iPrint version: _z9781138301245
830		0	_aRoutledge International Studies in Business History.
856	4	0	_uhttps://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/9780203729496 _zClick here to view.
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