Prolegomenon zu einer evolutorischen Theorie der Unternehmung

Fritz Rahmeyer ()
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Fritz Rahmeyer: University of Augsburg, Department of Economics

No 202, Discussion Paper Series from Universitaet Augsburg, Institute for Economics

Abstract: The evolutionary theory of economic change in the predominant version of Nelson and Winterhas originally put forward an independent theory of the firm only fragmentary. It rests uponthe behavioural theory of the firm and the innovation theories of Marshall and Schumpeter.The object of this paper is at the same time to elaborate on this approach and above all to enlarge it through the resource-based- and beyond that the knowledge-based-theory of the firm.This extension by recent findings of „Business Strategy" renders possible a more active part for firms to gain lasting competitive advantages. Besides that it gives rise to an intended heterogeneity among firms. It also necessarily connects the strengths and weaknesses of anindividual firm and the opportunities and threats of its environment.

Keywords: Evolutionary Economics; Theory of the firm; Knowledge-based theory of the firm (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: B25 L20 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2001-05
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