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This unique Handbook explores both the economics of the firm and the theory of the firm, two areas which are traditionally treated separately in the literature. On the one hand, the former refers to the structure, organization and boundaries of the firm, while the latter is devoted to the analysis of behaviours and strategies in particular market contexts. The novel concept underpinning this authoritative volume is that these two areas closely interact, and that a framework must be articulated in order to illustrate how linkages can be created. This interpretative framework is comprehensively

During the early 20th century the diverse practices of genetics were unified by the concept of the gene. This classical gene was simultaneously a unit of structure, function, mutation, and recombination. Starting in the 1940s, however, the classical gene began to fragment. Today when we speak of a gene for some malady, a regulatory gene, a structural gene, or a gene frequency, it is entirely possible that we are deploying different gene concepts even though we are using the same term. The problem of the gene addresses the fragmentation of the classical gene concept by asking to what extent a comprehensive and unifying gene concept is possible or desirable. Fully comprehensive gene concepts seem untenable today, but, within different disciplinary domains, unifying, but non-comprehensive, gene concepts can be epistemically worthwhile. The problem of the gene persists, however, not because of its epistemic value, but because of its political value. Using both the arguments for newly proposed gene concepts and the historical dispute over the classical gene, I argue that the desirability of gene concepts rests in part on the political ramifications of their deployment and contestation.

Examines the implications for the economics of the firm of the
development of total quality control and just‐in‐time management which
are becoming increasingly important for intrafirm resource allocation.
Shows the Alchian and Demsetz and transaction cost perspectives on the
firm and work organization to be theories of a particular management
style rather than a general economics of the firm. Develops an
alternative and more general framework on the basis of the firm as a
strategic framework, defined in terms of the knowledge base of an
organization, rather than a single strategic orientation. This framework
constrains and directs organizationally lower level proactive activity.
Emphasis is placed on the importance of participative management, in
core firms, and an economic rather than legal definition of the firm.

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