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Family firms and homeland production: reasoning from agency theory and socio-emotional wealth theory

International Journal of Globalisation and Small Business, 2016
Agency theory and socio-emotional wealth theory are central when explaining family firm advantages. However, research has not uncovered the extent to which reasoning from these two theories can also explain family firm advantages linked to the homeland production mode. This paper addresses this issue, building on the above-mentioned theories through an
Ingstrup, Mads Bruun, Jensen, Kent Wickstrøm, Lüthje, Teit   +2 more
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The classical theory of production and the capabilities view of the firm

Journal of Economic Studies, 1997
Makes the case that the classical theory of production, as developed primarily by Adam Smith, should be seen as a precursor of the modern capabilities view of the firm (Penrose, Richardson, Nelson and Winter, Teece, Langlois and others). Furthermore, based on an empiricist epistemology, Smith developed ideas that are close to modern notions such as ...
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A NOTE ON ADJUSTMENT TO PRODUCTION UNCERTAINTY AND THE THEORY OF THE FIRM

Economic Inquiry, 1990
This paper analyzes the impact of production uncertainty on the firm's optimal output decision. If uncertainty is introduced by an additive risk variable, then short‐run optimal output is unchanged, but the owner‐manager's expected utility can change causing long‐run output effects. If uncertainty is introduced by a multiplicative random variable, then
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A Product Market Theory of Training in Firms [PDF]

, 2000
We develop a product market theory explaining why firms invest in general training of their workers and managers. We consider a model where firms first decide whether to invest in general human capital, then make wage offers for the trained employees in the market and finally engage in product market competition.
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The Relationship between Land Transfer and Agricultural Green Production: A Collaborative Test Based on Theory and Data

Agriculture (Switzerland), 2022
Li Fanghua, Dungang Zang
exaly  

The Economic Theory of Production and Cost in the Multiproduct Firm

1995
Although the single product firm often dominates theoretical treatises and textbooks on the economics of the firm, the importance of the multiproduct firm has long been recognised by economists. The first treatment of a firm producing more than one output appeared in John Stuart Mill’s Principles of Political Economy (1st edn 1848).
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Application of entropy production theory for energy losses and other investigation in pumps and turbines: A review

Applied Energy, 2022
Zbigniew Krzemianowski, Mahmoud El-Emam, Ling Zhou   +2 more
exaly  

Introductory Essays on Aspects of the History of the Theory of Production and the Theory of the Firm

SSRN Electronic Journal, 2020
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The Resilience of the Firm: A Production Theory Approach

SSRN Electronic Journal, 2017
Noah Dormady, Alfredo Roa-Henriquez, Adam Rose   +2 more
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The Theory of the Firm: Production, Capital, and Finance.

The Journal of Finance, 1969
Stanley Reiter, Douglas Vickers
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