An Entrepreneurial Theory of the Firm

By Mark C. Casson. 2000

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Subfields: Management of Technology and Innovation

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Knowledge-intensive innovative entrepreneurship integrating Schumpeter, evolutionary economics, and innovation systems (2020, background): “A long series of debates exists, which contrasts the created and discovered opportunities (Kirzner 1997; Alvarez and Barney 2007a; Lachmann 1986; Short et al. 2010), including debates on epistemology and historical roots which impact characteristics of the knowledge involved in the opportunity…”
A dynamic capabilities-based entrepreneurial theory of the multinational enterprise (2014, unknown): “tions, international business scholarship has left capabilities considerations underdeveloped, to its considerable detriment (e.g., Birkinshaw & Hood, 1998; Cantwell, 2009; Langlois, 2007).”
Knowledge management, innovation and firm performance (2005, background): “As already indicated, what makes the contribution of Penrose (1959) important is that she endeavoured to consider what goes on inside a firm, something not traditionally accounted for by mainstream economists (Nelson, 1991; Sautet, 2000).”
Strategy as Evolution with Design: The Foundations of Dynamic Capabilities and the Role of Managers in the Economic System (2008, background): “Such information is not always available; or if it is available, is likely to be incomplete, or highly subjective (Casson 2000: 119; Simon 1993).”
Firms as Realizations of Entrepreneurial Visions (2007, methodology): “As such it differs from the sometimes used concept of a ‘mental model’ (e.g. in Casson, 2000; Hill and Levenhagen, 1995) that has been introduced in cognitive science ( Johnson-Laird, 1983, Ch. 1) to characterize the process of reasoning in the human mind rather than its underlying cognitive frame.”
Dynamic Capabilities and the Role of Managers in Business Strategy and Economic Performance (2009, background): “One exception is Chandler (1977). 2See Teece et al.”
Opportunity Discovery, Entrepreneurial Action, and Economic Organization (2008, background): “For the firm to be successful, the entrepreneur must establish a tacit, shared framework of goals—what Casson (2000) calls a “mental model” of reality—which governs the relationships among members of the entrepreneur’s team.”
Beyond institutional voids: Business groups, incomplete markets, and organizational form (2015, background): “A critical factor that affects a firm’s motivation and ability to pursue growth opportunities is its organizational and governance framework (Chandler, 1962; Penrose, 1959; Sautet, 2000).”
Entrepreneurship and the Economic Theory of the Firm: Any Gains from Trade? (2004, unknown): “Casson (2000) calls these plans “mental models” of reality.”
Institutional Entrepreneurship (2006, background): “Fifth, there are links between the ideas in this paper and the long-running debate over the place of entrepreneurship in the theory of the firm, if any (Casson, 1999, 2000; Alvarez and Barney, 2004, 2005; Dew et al, 2004, Boudreaux and Holcombe, 1989).”
Entrepreneurial judgment as empathic accuracy: a sequential decision-making approach to entrepreneurial action (2013, background): “Sarasvathy and Dew (2013: 291–292) expound: Effectual stakeholders are less likely to play a game of follow-the-vision (Witt, 1998a, 1998b) or plan (Sautet, 2000) of the charismatic entrepreneurial leader and more prone to negotiate a variety of concrete stakes in shaping vision and venture.”