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Rethinking the firm: organizational approaches.
October 1, 2003... Abstract
How does social science based organization theory describe the business firm? Sociology, political science, social psychology and ethnology have inspired two almost classical perspectives. One theorizes the firm as an arena for strategic behavior. The other underlines the way...
Indifference or obedience? Business firms as democratic hybrids.
October 1, 2003... Abstract
To the perennial question of why and how people obey, organizational and political theories usually offer a restricted vision mainly based on interpersonal power processes and organizational control mechanisms. Although such theories are useful, the recent evolution of business...
Organizational process, strategic content and socio-economic resources: small enterprises in East Germany, 1990-94.
October 1, 2003... Abstract
The theory of the firm implies a framework which links up conceptually diverse aspects and approaches. This article tests a specific framework: an interactionist variant of co-evolution theory derived from an article by Hrebiniak and Joyce. Organizations are viewed as enacting...
The combination of strategic games and moral community in the functioning of firms.
October 1, 2003... Abstract
In order to describe the functioning of business firms, two different models of collective action are currently mobilized. The first represents the firm as an arena for the different strategies of actors who want to maximize their interests. The second model focuses on the...
A theory of the cultural evolution of the firm: the intra-organizational ecology of memes.
October 1, 2003... Abstract
In this article, we propose a theory of the cultural evolution of the firm. We apply cultural and evolutionary thinking to the questions posed by theories of the firm: What are firms and why do they exist? We argue that firms are best thought of as cultures, as social...